Genevieve Waller

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Join date: Jan 26, 2023

About

Ginny Waller is the former Executive Director of the largest, free-standing sexual assault services agency in South Carolina. She is also a skilled facilitator (virtual and in-person) and lawyer (licensed in South Carolina) with more than sixteen years of experience in nonprofit leadership development, strategic planning, and operational efficiency, with specializations in change management and relationship building.

Boards Served On:

National Guard Bureau Spouses’ Club
Wiesbaden Community Spouses’ Club
The South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.

Her passion is supporting nonprofit leaders as thought partners and strategic advisers to build the capacity to dream their nonprofits' visions into reality. She has received numerous accolades for excellence in the profession:

Award for Non-Profit Leadership (2013), South Carolina Association of Non-Profit Organizations
President’s Award (2012) and Young Lawyer of the Year (2008), South Carolina Bar
Fundraising Professional of the Year (2015), Association of Fundraising Professionals - Midlands Chapter

Posts (46)

Jul 31, 2026 ∙ 3 min

A Board Does Not Become Effective by Accident

I've spent much of my career working alongside nonprofit boards, from nearly every possible vantage point. I've reported to boards as an executive director, served as a board member, facilitated retreats, trained governance committees, advised organizations through strategic planning, and stepped into situations where board dysfunction had become a full-blown organizational crisis. And, if I'm being completely transparent, I've also sat through my share of board meetings wondering if anyone...

Jul 23, 2026 ∙ 4 min

When the CEO Becomes the Operating Model

I have been thinking a lot about CEO burnout lately, not as a passing complaint about being tired or needing a vacation, but as something much more structural. The kind of burnout I am talking about changes the way leaders move through the world. Every email starts to feel loaded. Every board question sounds like criticism. Every staff concern feels like one more thing being tossed into an already overflowing bag. Leaders who are still showing up, still answering questions, still raising...

Mar 30, 2026 ∙ 2 min

Stop Treating Fundraising Like Charity

There’s a mindset sitting under a lot of fundraising that no one names: The idea that we’re asking people to do us a favor. That giving is generosity. That donors are helping us out. That we should be grateful someone said yes. That’s charity mentality. And it’s quietly breaking your fundraising. The Thread Is Thinner Than You Think Think about a quilt. Programs are the fabric. Strategy is the pattern. Fundraising is the thread that holds it all together. When fundraising is treated like a...