Staff

Raine Howe, Executive Director

Raine Howe is a non-profit executive professional specializing in program and fund development. She comes to Arts For the Schools with over 15 years experience in campaign strategies, project development, marketing, community outreach, donor cultivation, grant writing and administrative roles within non-profit and for-profit environments. Former Clients and Employers include: Full Circle Transplant Bank, where she developed the organization from the ground up and increased donation in Sonoma County by over 300% within the first year. She is the former Operations Manager of the League of California Community Foundations, where she organized convenings, retreats, programs, and took a lead role in implementing standards for 26 community foundations in the state of California. She was recruited to The Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation in 2004 to help transform the organization from a private model to a community foundation model. She worked part-time as the Executive Director of Squaw Valley Institute where she increased membership and awareness of the organization. Her most recent project was at the Tahoe Forest Health System, where she conducted a capital campaign for the Incline campus, resulting in a renovated emergency department, which was completed earlier this year.

Additional accomplishments within these organizations include creating self-sustaining infrastructures for start-ups, successful marketing campaigns that resulted in increasing funds, developing programs and submitting grants that were fully funded.

She is passionate about the Arts and has been fortunate enough to live in places that offered cultural experiences. She has traveled the world since the time she was a young student and spent entire semesters of her school years in China and Europe, enjoying a multitude of performances and artwork from these and many other countries. She looks forward to continuing Arts For the Schools stellar reputation which began with Terry Yagura 25 years ago, and bringing the Arts and the magic it offers to our schools and our community.