Scott Provancher joined the Arts & Science Council as President in July 2009. Since that time, he has successfully raised $20 million to complete an $83 million endowment campaign for the new Levine Center for the Arts and raised more than $14 million in annual support for Charlotte’s cultural community. Provancher serves on the Americans for the Arts’ Private Sector Council and the Knight Foundation’s National Arts Advisory Committee; the boards of the North Carolina Arts Council, Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust, and Charlotte Center City Partners; and advisory boards for Queens University of Charlotte’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Eastman School of Music.
In his prior position as vice president and campaign director of the Fine Arts Fund in Cincinnati, Ohio - the oldest and largest united arts and culture fundraising organization in the country - Provancher led key initiatives focused on growing audiences and participation for the arts and culture sector. He spearheaded a groundbreaking customer research project that helped the Fund’s member organizations grow their audiences through collaborative marketing programs. He also championed a two-year restructuring of marketing and sales strategies and infrastructure that helped to increase fundraising revenue by nearly 10 percent from 2006-2008.