Lindsey Linzer uses her expertise in complex grants and program administration to connect community needs to financial resources. She serves as the Vice President of Community Investments at The Miami Foundation, a $485 million community foundation focused on building a stronger, more equitable Greater Miami. In this role, she partners with private and family foundations, nonprofit organizations, and community members to advance social change. Lindsey helps donors turn their philanthropic visions into reality by designing and implementing innovative donor collaboratives and grantmaking initiatives.
At The Miami Foundation, Lindsey oversees a diverse portfolio of community engagement initiatives and leads a thirteen-person community investments team in managing a significant portfolio of charitable funds and special projects. She has created and scaled multi-million dollar local and national grant programs in the areas of local news and information, disaster and community recovery, and arts education and access. Recently, Lindsey was the force behind the launch of Press Forward, a $500 million, nationally effort to reimagine local news. In the past, she designed the Foundation’s COVID-19 community recovery efforts leading $16 million+ in grantmaking as well as Miami-Dade Counts 2020, a collaborative grantmaking and outreach campaign to encourage participation in the 2020 Census.
Lindsey brings over a decade of experience in nonprofit and foundation management with a deep expertise in program design, donor collaboratives, fiscal sponsorship, and grants management. Prior to joining The Miami Foundation in 2017, Lindsey worked as grants administration officer at Knight Foundation, where she managed the organization’s grants processes, as well as special projects. She also served as program manager at the Community Foundation of Broward, overseeing leadership development and capacity building programs.
Originally from South Florida, Lindsey received her bachelor’s degree in business from Emory University and her MBA from Columbia Business School. Lindsey participated in the CFLeads leadership program for Community Foundation Vice Presidents and is a graduate of the Council on Foundation’s Career Pathways program. Lindsey serves on the Board of the Florida Chapter of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
When she is not working to build a better Miami, Lindsey is spending time watching her two young boys on the field and is playing tennis with her husband Ross.