Donna McKay
Director of Institutional Advancement and Special Projects
Donna McKay, is the Director of Institutional Advancement and Special Projects of the national American Civil Liberties Union.
McKay has nearly 20 years of experience in developing and managing programs for national and international advocacy and justice organizations. Since joining the ACLU in early 2002, McKay has presided over a period of historic growth, in which the ACLU's membership has nearly doubled and the budget has nearly tripled. She currently oversees all resource development programs including membership recruitment and mobilization. She helped to launch a network of civil liberties organizations worldwide and designed and launched a $335 million campaign to help expand the ACLU's work in key states and grow the ACLU's influence nationwide.
Her career also includes experience in relief organizations as well as an eight-year association with Planned Parenthood: first as director of program funding for its New York City affiliate, then as development director and vice president for external affairs of its Chicago affiliate, with responsibility for resource development, communications and lobbying.
Before joining the ACLU, McKay was vice president for development at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, managing a large national staff as well as four chapter office operations and raising nearly $60 million annually.
McKay received a graduate degree in nonprofit management and urban policy from the New School for Social Research in New York City. She is a member of the board of directors of the Women’s Refugee Commission.
