Elizabeth BurkeElizabeth A. Burke recently joined Stanford University’s Medical Center Development’s major gifts team as Senior Associate Director of Faculty and Departmental Initiatives in July 2013.  She is now working closely with Dr. Robert Jackler and the Otolaryngology Department to secure support towards our $10 million goal for the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss (SICHL).  She is happy to answer any questions regarding funding and can be reached at:

 

Elizabeth Burke

Senior Associate Director, Faculty and Departmental Initiatives

Stanford University

Medical Center Development

3172 Porter Drive, Suite 210

Palo Alto, CA 94304

E: elizabeth.burke@stanford.edu

T: (650) 725-8277

 

Prior to this appointment, she served as Senior Associate Director of Development and Director of Foundation Relations at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, overseeing a $17M portfolio of funding for departmental initiatives related to programs for individuals with special needs, art conservation, international programs, archives, library, film, media, performances, scientific equipment, capital campaign, endowment, digitization, and special projects.  In addition to her fourteen-year tenure at MoMA, she launched her career in the field of international development as an Emerging Market Analyst for Digital Equipment (Paris, France, 1991-94) identifying opportunities in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern and Central Europe and former Soviet Union, financed by multilateral and bilateral agencies such as the United Nations Development Fund, the World Bank, and others.

 

She served as Adjunct Professor in Support Structures (fundraising and grantwriting), a graduate-level course in Arts Administration at Columbia University from 2004-06.  In 2004, she trained the Louvre Museum’s newly formed development team at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, while lecturing at the Université de Paris-Dauphine, and the Institut des Etudes Politique (“Sciences-Po”) in Paris, France.  She has been a guest speaker for Stanford University, Columbia University, Seton Hall University (NJ), the College of the Holy Cross (MA), and the Hemispheric Conference of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in Mexico City.

 

She earned her MA in arts and non-profit administration from Columbia University Teachers College (New York, NY), with significant coursework at Columbia’s Business School and School of International Affairs.  She earned her BA in English with a concentration in French from the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA), followed by studies at the Academic Programs Abroad and the Université de Paris in Paris, France.

Please join us in welcoming Elizabeth to our team, and please do not hesitate to contact her with any questions regarding giving.