DBT40 Honoree: Kyle Conner – Delaware Business Times [Video]

Title: Director of Development

Workplace: Exceptional Care for Children

Age: 33

At Exceptional Care for Children, Kyle Conner’s main priority is to ensure life-changing care for some of Delaware’s most medically fragile children is available for generations to come. As the organization’s director of development, it’s up to Conner to maintain and cultivate donor relationships among individuals, corporations and foundations while also staying on top of grant opportunities.

Over the last four years, he’s led fundraising campaigns that have raised over $12.8 million for his employer to provide care for Exceptional Care’s patients and their families. In his current role, which he has held since April 2021, Conner oversees the fundraising budget, marketing efforts and maintains legal and ethical compliance while also managing and mentoring a development manager at the facility.

He has demonstrated his sales, partnership-building and marketing skills through previous management experience at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center where he managed a …