The Verve Team

Dottie Schindlinger
Executive Vice President

A professional project manager, marketing/communications consultant, and strategic thinker with over a decade of experience with mission based organizations in the nonprofit sector, Dottie brings a unique mixture of skills to her work at Verve. As Executive Vice President, Dottie focuses her energy on new business development and serving the needs of Verve's diverse stakeholders.

Prior to joining Verve in September 2005, Dottie worked for over five years with the Nonprofit Center at La Salle University. As the Center's first-ever Director of Marketing, Dottie was responsible for a complete brand redesign and new graphic identity for all the Center's print publications. She introduced the Center to email marketing, increasing program enrollments by more than 20% in the first year. She also created the Center's first strategic marketing plan and helped to grow the market reach to include southeastern PA, southern NJ, and northern DE. Prior to her marketing role, Dottie served for three years as the Center's Director of Educational Programs, where she created the Center's annual conference called the "Nonprofit Strategies Forum," and developed certificate programs in Board Leadership and Fundraising. In 2001, Dottie also served as Adjunct Faculty of La Salle University's Communication Department, where she taught Public Speaking.

Previously, Dottie spent six years with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, a private nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she developed state-wide humanities programs. In her volunteer work, Dottie served as Trustee and Major Gifts Chair of the Alice Paul Institute, and as a committee member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Philadelphia Chapter. Dottie is the Co-Founder and former Co-President of Philadelphia's Young Nonprofit Leaders (PYNL), a network of young and emerging nonprofit professionals in the Philadelphia region with over 1,400 members. Dottie received her BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania.