John Graves

John Graves has been a partner in Eidolon Communications, a communications and fundraising company, for 20 years. During this time, John has developed strategy and management programs for a wide range of nonprofit clients, including many for whom he helped develop their first fundraising campaigns. These include Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York Restoration Project, Legal Action Center, and Poetry Society of America. Currently, John oversees diversified fundraising campaigns for a variety of clients including the Human Rights Campaign, Free Press Action Fund, GLSEN and In The Life. Prior to forming Eidolon, John was national program director of the American Social Health Association, where he stewarded ASHA’s winning bids for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s National AIDS Hotline and National AIDS Education contracts; he personally directed the establishment of the CDC AIDS Hotline in New York when it was launched in 1985-86. He was chair of the board of directors of Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, guiding its growth from a small neighborhood-based STD clinic to the largest gay and lesbian primary care health facility in the world.