Gottlieb Named Americares SVP and Chief Development Officer

Stamford, Conn. – May 6, 2025 – Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, is pleased to announce the promotion of Yael Gottlieb to senior vice president and chief development officer. In this elevated role, Gottlieb will provide both strategic leadership and hands-on tactical fundraising for Americares health programs and disaster response work worldwide. She leads all corporate, foundation and individual giving, including $1 billion in annual product donations from pharmaceutical and medical supply companies.

“Yael is a mission-driven leader with a strong track record of growing support for global health and humanitarian work,” said Americares President and CEO Christine Squires. “She brings not only the strategic vision we need to scale our impact, but also a strong commitment to partnership and helping people and communities thrive—values that are at the core of everything we do at Americares.”

Gottlieb brings more than two decades of nonprofit leadership experience to the role, including extensive expertise in fundraising, organizational strategy and global development. She joined Americares Development team in 2021 as a deputy senior vice president in charge of individual philanthropy, planned giving, foundation relations and donor stewardship. In 2024, her role was expanded to include corporate giving, cause marketing and enterprise partnerships.

Prior to joining Americares, Gottlieb served as vice president of development at the Institute for Sustainable Communities, overseeing fundraising for programs that created, implemented and scaled equitable climate change mitigation and resilience solutions. Prior to that, Gottlieb served as vice president of development and communications for the International Women’s Health Coalition in New York, an organization that promoted and protected the sexual and reproductive rights and health of women and young people, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Gottlieb also spent more than a decade with Human Rights Watch in New York and New Delhi, including serving as senior director of global development strategy, director of South Asia outreach and senior grant writer and manager of foundation relations.

“I was drawn to Americares because of the opportunity to help people and communities access health even in the most difficult circumstances,” said Gottlieb. “In my new role, I am excited to lead the incredible team raising funds to power that lifesaving work.”

Gottlieb earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in public administration, international nonprofit management and public policy from New York University. She has lived and worked extensively in India beginning over 30 years ago with Rotary International, studying Hindi with Emory University and through the American India Foundation Banyan Impact Fellowship.

A leader in the humanitarian sector, Americares is No. 8 on Forbes list of Top 100 Charities and has a 4-star rating—the highest possible— from Charity Navigator—America’s largest independent charity evaluator. Americares helps communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters; increase accessibility, availability, affordability and acceptability of medicine and medical supplies; improve and expand clinical services; and prevent disease and promote good health. Since it was established in 1979, Americares has provided over $23 billion in aid to 164 countries, including the United States.

Gottlieb lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her husband, Paul Fronckowiak, and two children.