As a coach, she works with individual fundraisers, executive leaders/boards and career changers.  As a consultant, she produces development audits and fundraising plans, builds major gift shops, offers training on board engagement, and provides support for corporate and foundation relations, donor cultivation and stewardship. She has managed feasibility studies for capital, reserve, and endowment campaigns.  She has worked with dozens of non-profits in the US and abroad.  She is an adjunct professor in the Columbia University Master Program in Non-Profit Management teaching major gifts and fundraising fundamentals; she also teaches courses at New York University.  She has been and is a frequent speaker at national and international fundraising conferences.  She loves working in the non-profit sector and sees fundraising as a way to make the world a better place.

Robin was a foster-child during her teenage years, and like the kids that You Gotta Believe serves, she needed a place to go when she aged out of the system.  She is committed to giving back and helping others to have the advantages of finding a family again.   Robin, and her wife of 35 years, raised two children in Brooklyn.  She believes that all children should have the love and stability that committed families can provide.