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Danielle Amato-Milligan Ms. Amato-Milligan has extensive experience as a strategic planner and as a senior level fund-raiser, both as a generalist and a specialist in the areas of institutional annual giving, major gifts, planned giving and endowments. She has developed and maintained a broad base of high-level individual, corporate, and foundation contacts. In addition to her fund-raising and strategic planning capabilities, she has extensive experience in the areas of board development, audience development, managing organizational change, securing and managing human and financial resources, organizational and program assessment, and as a strong administrator and manager. Prior to establishing the firm, Ms. Amato-Milligan has worked as consultant, both independently and for C. W. Shaver & Company, Inc. Ms. Amato-Milligan served as Director of Development for the Museum for African Art from 1995 to 1997, where she expanded the museum’s funding base, raising $1.5 Million annually. From 1992 to 1995, Ms. Amato-Milligan was the Director of Major Gifts, managing The Campaign for BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s first effort to raise $22.5 Million in endowment funds. During her tenure at BAM, she helped to develop campaign policy, and developed and implemented fund-raising strategies to successfully move the campaign effort from its June 1993 public launch through its subsequent phases. She also served as Executive Producer, working with photographer Annie Leibovitz, on the campaign fund-raising video and produced the 150-person cultivation dinner for the video's launch in January 1994. Ms. Amato- Milligan worked closely with counsel and BAM’s senior management and provided support and managed the campaign’s high-level volunteer leadership committees. She previously served as Director of Development of the Queens Museum of Art during its first $15 Million building renovation, and as the Membership Manager for the Whitney Museum of American Art, managing its $1 Million- plus Membership Program. She is currently a Trustee (Vice Chair and Development Committee Chair) of The Medici Archive Project (MAP: www.medici.org), a non-profit organization based in Florence, Italy and New York, NY, that plays a leadership role in the field of historical research. MAP’s primary mission is the translation and dissemination of the 3 million documents in the Medici Granducal Archives, as well as to provide post-doctoral fellowships and other programs. She is a former Trustee of ArtTable, the national organization for professional women in the arts, serving as Chair of the New York Chapter Development Committee for several years. She has been a panelist and speaker for the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ (formerly NSFRE) annual Fund-Raising Day in New York conference and for New York University’s several graduate arts administration programs. She is a member of the American Association of Museums, the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Women in Development. Ms. Amato-Milligan is a registered Fundraising Counsel with the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Ms. Amato-Milligan graduated from New York University with one of the first inter-disciplinary B.A. honors degrees in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (East & West) with minors in Italian and linguistics. She began her museum career as a Special Research Assistant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where among other projects she worked with the Associate Curator of Islamic Art on a major exhibition entitled, "The Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks".
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