J.S. May

Managing Director

J.S. (John Stuart) May is seasoned fundraising and communications professional and has worked with a wide range of local, regional, national and international nonprofit organizations.  He has helped raise more than $500 million. Since 2018 J.S. has been the managing director for Artist Repertory Theatre, Portland’s oldest profession theatre. For eleven years prior, he was the chief fundraising, marketing and communications officer, and strategist for the Portland Art Museum – Oregon’s premier visual arts institution. Before the Art Museum, for seven years J.S. led the fundraising practice for Metropolitan Group, a Portland-based social marketing firm that works to create a more just and sustainable world. For the six years prior to MG, he supported the growth of the region’s leading pediatric teaching and research hospital as executive director for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation at OHSU. Before Doernbecher, J.S. spent six years supporting the expansion and growth of the region’s most trusted media source as the director of corporate support for Oregon Public Broadcasting. A graduate of the University of Oregon, J.S. has volunteered for numerous nonprofit organizations and has served multiple terms as president of the board for both the Portland Schools Foundation and the Portland Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.  He currently serves as president of the Cycle Oregon and is a board member for the Cultural Advocacy Coalition. J.S. is an avid yogi, cyclist, and reader.