Kendra Davenport

Kendra serves as the Chief Development Officer for Operation Smile, where she manages a multi-channel global philanthropy program that includes mass market, digital fundraising, individual and corporate giving. She also oversees the organization’s brand and marketing and communications and PR divisions. She has spent more than three decades working exclusively in the nonprofit arena, specializing in development. Much of her career has been devoted to the cultivation of funding relationships with corporations, capitalizing on the growing commitment of companies to meaningful, metric-driven corporate social responsibility. Kendra possesses extensive management experience, having overseen staff across 18 Sub-Saharan countries in a previous position and she has managed several complex national development and communications portfolios, served as president of a small nonprofit, and as a philanthropy and communications consultant to several nonprofit and proprietary organizations.