Director, Foundation and Corporate EngagementCatholic Relief Services
Michele Gilfillan leads the Foundation and Corporate Engagement Team at CRS. She works closely with private institutions and CRS country teams on innovative programming to meet the needs of the communities CRS serves around the globe. She has also worked as a major gift officer with CRS, cultivating individual donors and families to invest in CRS programming.
Michele has 20 years of experience in program development and fundraising in the global nonprofit sector. She served in a leadership position at the Institute of International Education, one of the world’s largest international scholarship, training and exchange organizations. Michele also served as the Executive Director of a small nonprofit based in NYC that engaged volunteers with social service organizations in the U.S. and Latin America. Michele holds a Masters in Nonprofit Management and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Political Science.
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Middle East and North Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa