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Kathy LeMay

Founder, President & CEO of Raising Change

Founder, President & CEO of Raising Change

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Kathy LeMay Biography

Kathy LeMay has committed her life to global social change. She began at the age of 14 launching an anti-apartheid campaign in her small Massachusetts mill town. Several human rights campaigns later which resulted in a LOT of press in a conventional rural community, she recalls her mother’s nervous boss saying, “Will your daughter be appearing in the newspaper as a REGULAR thing?” Her mother’s reply: “With any luck, absolutely yes.”

Since then LeMay has traveled the United States and the world listening to, learning from, and raising money for those who’ve survived war, genocide, gender-based violence and climate-induced disasters. In the course of her work, LeMay has raised $175M, led international women’s human-rights organizations, become a sought-after public speaker, a published author, and served as a philanthropic adviser to some of the world’s most renowned philanthropists. It was while she was in these halls of power that she realized that she did not feel as though she had arrived. She felt lost and not found in philanthropy.

Now, after thirty years in global social change, LeMay is going back to roots, back to where it all began. She’s rediscovering what it means to teach someone to read, to feed families at soup kitchens, and to radically listen to each person’s life and experience, and to share her story. Today, LeMay is capturing people’s stories and words through photojournalism with the goal of hosting her first exhibit.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/04/2024.

Kathy LeMay Speaking Topics

  • Suffering Is Optional: Fundraising Effectively in Challenging Times

  • Authentic Philanthropy: It's About the Relationship, Not the Transaction

  • Going from Success to Significance

    Years ago, a colleague of Kathy LeMay's said, "After a great and productive career, I thought: Is this it? I knew then I was ready to go from success to significance." What does it mean to live a significant life? How do you know if your life has a positive and powerful impact on the lives of those around you: family, friends, neighbors, and strangers? LeMay will share stories of people who have chosen lives of significance and how their lives have become more abundant and prosperous with deeper connections and less stress. Learn today how you can live a deeply significant life through heartfelt generosity.

  • Voice, Activism & Money: Women Creating the World We Know is Possible

    There is lots of talk about what it will take to end poverty, cure illness, and create a fair world. What, though, will it take to make change that will last? Author Kathy LeMay will share stories of women throughout the United States and the world who have created a formula for success by combining their voices, activism, and money to create a better world. LeMay's unique style of speaking will help your audience discover how they can bring together their voice, skills, talents, and resources to create change across the world or in their own backyard.

  • Unleashing the Change Agent Within

    These days the news is filled with stories and headlines about philanthropy: big names, big causes, big wallets. We read about Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and giants of industry giving away 50% of their wealth to charitable endeavors. Amid this, what is the role for the rest of us? Raising Change president and The Generosity Plan author Kathy LeMay will inspire your audience to unleash within themselves their unique skills and capacities to change the world. You don't need to be a millionaire to make a difference!

  • The Calm in the Storm

    When a prominent pastor from North Carolina argued that gays and lesbians should be rounded up and put behind an electrified fence to die out, Kathy LeMay refused to be poisoned by his words and others like them. Called "the calm in the storm" of the fight for gay rights, she urges her audiences to dispel their anger • right as it may be • and instead focus on empowering themselves and other marginalized individuals. "It's not what people say to you but how you respond to them that defines who you are," she says. Heralding this hopeful and humanitarian message, she insists that the gay community has an obligation to promote all human rights • not simply gay rights • and ought to use its social and political leverage to do so.

Kathy LeMay Videos

  • Kathy LeMay on the Nonprofit Leadership Podcast - YouTube
    As a leader, it is so important to bring your full humanness to your organization and work.
  • Money Does Not Own You - Kathy LeMay - YouTube
    Kathy LeMay is the founder, president, and CEO of Raising Change, Inc., which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change ...
  • 2017 Ready to Work Event: Kathy LeMay

Kathy LeMay Books

  • The Generosity Plan: Sharing Your Time, Treasure, and Talent to Shape the World
    The Generosity Plan: Sharing Your Time, Treasure, and Talent to Shape the World

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Kathy LeMay is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Suffering Is Optional: Fundraising Effectively in Challenging Times, Authentic Philanthropy: It's About the Relationship, Not the Transaction, Going from Success to Significance, Voice, Activism & Money: Women Creating the World We Know is Possible, Unleashing the Change Agent Within and The Calm in the Storm. The estimated speaking fee range to book Kathy LeMay for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Kathy LeMay generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Tererai Trent, Sonia Nazario, Malaak Compton, Victoria Rowell and Hugh Evans. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Kathy LeMay for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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