Kim Gaskill has been active in fundraising, communication and strategic planning for more than 30 years. Kim started Gaskill Strategies as a one-person shop in 2004 with the goal of doing good work for good organizations.

Early and longtime clients were BRIDGES USA and LeBonheur Children’s Hospital. Over the past two decades, as the founding partner of Gaskill Strategies Kim has worked with more than 60 nonprofits and community-focused organizations, helping to raise more than $300 million. Kim is a skilled organizational strategic and creative thinker with an emphasis on planning, facilitation, communication, implementation and evaluation.

Although she’s spent more than half her career running Gaskill Strategies, she started her career at the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association where she led a successful capital campaign to raise $25 million, coordinated the creation and operation of the Starry Nights exhibit — a Top 20 Southeastern Tourism event and fundraiser — and published Memphis Parent. As vice president of marketing for the St. Louis Cardinals AAA affiliate, the Memphis Redbirds, she added sports marketing to her skill set, working to create and manage the branding of the team, the opening of AutoZone Park and the creating of the Redbirds Foundation.

She is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, a graduate of New Memphis Institute’s LDI program, Leadership Memphis, a member of Mei-Ann’s Circle of Friends for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, a founding member of Give 365 for the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis and a former board member for the Christian Community Foundation. She has received honors such as Memphis Business Journal’s Super Women in Business and Top 40 under 40 (“a few years ago,” she says!) and Memphis Women of Achievement.

All these experiences are a part of Kim’s journey to where she is now — the soul of Gaskill Strategies and the driving force behind our firm’s commitment to helping good organizations do great things.

John Gaskill is a skilled writer and editor with more than two decades of experience in journalism and communications and a passion for reporting, researching and storytelling.

He’s comfortable working in a variety of styles including print, web and e-mail formats and has the initiative to find, and the eye to recognize, good stories. After more than a decade as a professional musician and music teacher, John turned his attention to journalism, freelancing for publications across the Mid-South and later working as a reporter, photographer and editor for the DeSoto County edition of The Commercial Appeal.

As director of communications for Church of the Holy Communion, John was responsible for all facets of internal and external communications for the largest Episcopal church in the West Tennessee diocese. During his four years there, the parish’s communications developed a unique voice and garnered several national awards. 

A lifelong Memphian, Linda McNeil graduated LeMoyne-Owen College with a business administration degree and committed herself to working to better her community.

She began her professional fundraising career in LeMoyne-Owen College’s offices of Alumni Affairs and Institutional of Advancement, where she spent seven years. Over her 25-year nonprofit career, Linda has served as the chief fundraiser for some of the city’s most noteworthy nonprofits – BRIDGES, MIFA and the Soulsville Foundation. 

Linda received the Association of Fundraising Professionals Crystal Award for Fundraising Executive of the Year and she was honored as one of the Tri-State Defender’s Women of Excellence in 2015. Linda was most recently honored as one of the recipients of the Memphis Grizzlies 2021 HBCU Empowerment Awards for her positive contributions and impact in the Memphis community. 

She is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, a graduate of New Memphis Institute’s Fellows and LDI programs, Leadership Memphis, a founding member of Opus One and Mei-Ann’s Circle of Friends for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and a founding member of Give 365 for the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. Linda currently serves on the boards of the LeMoyne-Owen College National Alumni Association and St. Mary’s Episcopal School and is a member of the Community Foundation’s Strengthening Nonprofits Grants Committee.

Linda has served on the boards of Collage Dance Collective, Memphis Music Initiative and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Linda is a trusted and valued mentor for many young professionals in our community. She is quick to share her expertise and knowledge and loves nothing more than mentoring newcomers to the fields of fundraising, nonprofit management and community service.