Gillis Consulting for Arts & Culture is pleased to have provided fundraising and communications support for the transformational Moody Family Children's Museum project, set to break ground at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in January 2025. The reimagined space, designed by Amsterdam-based NorthernLight in their first U.S. project, will double in size to 11,000 square feet and introduce innovative features including an expanded toddler area, creative makery, and interactive outdoor spaces. This pivotal project will enhance STEM education through play for children across North Texas and beyond when the hall reopens in May 2025.

Gillis Consulting wrote and project managed the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas’s 2024 Impact Report, which showcases a year of extraordinary community mobilization and support. The report highlights the Federation's success in raising nearly $18 million through combined campaigns, securing $1.5 million in FEMA security grants, and strengthening vital relationships with elected officials. These achievements demonstrate the Federation’s ongoing commitment to nurturing and protecting Jewish life while fostering community resilience across the Greater Dallas region.

With planning and event execution led by Gillis Consulting for Arts & Culture, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (VACNJ) raised more than $350,000 to support the Center’s robust arts programming. This annual event had its largest turnout in more than a decade.

Gillis Consulting for Arts & Culture helped the iconic AT&T Performing Arts Center produce and edit its 2020-2023 Report to the Community. The publication highlights the Center’s amazing story during those years, including the challenges and triumphs of navigating the COVID-19 pandemic as a major arts organization.

Gillis Consulting for Arts & Culture helped secure the Small Urban Partnership grant for the Gateway Chamber Orchestra from the Tennessee Arts Commission. The grant funded the orchestra’s 15th-anniversary season, including an innovative and diverse performance of The Nutcracker by the Nashville Ballet.

In an article for Staffing.com, Susan Gillis Yarad details how the critical thinking skills developed in liberal arts programs may make these degrees ideal differentiators for job candidates in a challenging staffing market, with an increasing amount of jobs being outsourced to AI.

On CK Swett’s “An Incrementally Better World” podcast, Susan Gillis Yarad discusses her insights from hosting one of the first virtual nonprofit fundraisers in the New York metropolitan area during the beginning months of the COVID-19 pandemic.