Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer
Americares Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer Yael Gottlieb provides 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.
Gottlieb has more than two decades of nonprofit leadership experience, 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.
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.
