Karl M. Nichols

Karl Nichols is an experienced management professional with a proven record of leadership in the non-profit sector in the areas of educational and healthcare program management, administrative leadership, organizational partnerships, fund development, and civic engagement. For the past twenty years, he has worked tirelessly to see the issues of violence prevention, infant mortality reduction, fatherhood, child advocacy, education, youth development, and nonprofit management advanced in the City of Milwaukee and now Austin, Texas. In Milwaukee, Mr. Nichols served as Program Director and helped establish the Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the first nonprofit academic center of its kind in the State of Wisconsin. The mission of the Helen Bader Institute was to improve the leadership and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations through education, research and service in the Greater Milwaukee area. Mr. Nichols oversaw the project management of HBI programs and services by facilitating planning efforts, directing program development, and developing strategic partnerships in the local, state, and national communities. While in Austin, Karl has worked in senior leadership roles with well-respected organizations such as: OneStar Foundation, Austin Area Urban League, Skillpoint Alliance, SafePlace, and more recently, the African American Youth Harvest Foundation.

In his new role as Vice President of Investor Development at E3 Alliance, Karl will be working closely with the senior leadership team to develop the resources required to launch and scale major regional education initiatives through philanthropic and corporate grants, online relationship building, annual giving, and sales of education research and related services. Founded in 2006, E3 Alliance is a regional, data-driven education collaborative based in Austin, Texas that is helping to build the strongest educational pipeline in the country to drive regional economic prosperity. In his previous work, Mr. Nichols was responsible for leading the strategic fundraising efforts of a local nonprofit and helped grow the operating budget by 54 percent in one year through the expansion of governmental contracts, increases in corporate and philanthropic giving, and launching annual giving and individual/major donor campaigns. With over 12 years of extensive experience in executive leadership roles, he hopes to bring these skills and experiences towards advancing the work of E3 Alliance in the fund development capacity. Karl holds both a BA and MBA with a concentration in nonprofit management from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Karl is happily married to Linda Nichols and resides in Austin, Texas with their three sons who all graduated from Round Rock Independent School District high schools and currently matriculate at Texas universities.