Virginia D. Lang

Relocated in 2008 to Bellingham, WA from Houston, Texas and Fort Smith, Arkansas, Virginia Lang has been serving clients since 1998 with experience from both the corporate and nonprofit sides of the community affairs arena.  In that time, she has worked with an impressive array of nonprofit organizations and businesses in the areas of board development, planning, training and fund development.  As a grant writer and fundraiser, she has helped to raise an estimated $10 million, primarily for small to mid-sized and emerging nonprofit organizations. 

For six years, until 1997,  Virginia served as the Executive Director of Business Volunteers for the Arts/Houston, the Houston area affiliate of the nation’s single largest provider of volunteer business expertise to arts and cultural organizations.  This hands-on consulting directorship gave her the opportunity to recruit and manage a large body of volunteers while working directly with nonprofit arts organizations in fund development, strategic planning, volunteer and staff management, board development, and event management.

While directing the community involvement program for the Houston office of Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting (until late 1991), Virginia chaired fundraising campaigns, managed events, edited newsletters, coached individuals and groups on presentation and interview skills, and served on numerous boards and committees. She has worked with corporations, foundations, and nonprofit organizations on an extensive variety of projects.   She served as President of the Corporate Volunteer Council of Greater Houston, as chair of the Foster Grandparents Advisory Council for Sheltering Arms, and as President of the Houston Association of Volunteer Administrators.

A 27-year resident of Houston, Ginny was active there in the theatre scene as a company member of two local professional theatres and also served them as Public Relations Manager and Development Director.  For ten years, she and husband Frank Goss owned and operated Checkmate Theatricals, a talent and production agency for major special events. 

In Arkansas, Virginia worked for almost two years on the recruitment of the United States Marshal Service Museum.  She wrote and presented, in Washington, D.C. and Fort Smith, the business plan that helped win the competition making Fort Smith the home of the new national museum.  Other assignments in Arkansas included research, planning, training and grantwriting for Frontier Fest, Youth Arts Coalition, Young Actors Guild, River Valley Animal Welfare Coalition, Fort Smith Historical Society and its World War II Oral History project, and the City of Fort Smith’s nonprofit allocations process.

A popular presenter, facilitator, speaker and trainer, Virginia Lang is the author of Enlightened Volunteers, to be published in the summer of 2011 and she currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Whatcom Council of Nonprofits, based in Bellingham, WA. Her unique blend of arts and business experience, both corporate and nonprofit,  makes her a valuable asset to her corporate clients and those in the public affairs/philanthropic and nonprofit communities.


Virginia D. Lang
Lang Consulting
336 36th St. #333
Bellingham, WA 98225
360-319-6207 and 713-269-3372
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