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Nicole M. de Jesús

Associate Director of Fundraising and Development


Nicole M. de Jesús is a fundraising professional with over a decade of experience building successful relationships with individual and institutional donors. Her specialties include major donor cultivation and management, special events, proposal development and membership.

Prior to ASMA, Ms. de Jesús was the Associate Director of Development for Individual Giving at Symphony Space, a multidisciplinary performing arts venue on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She has provided fundraising and programming expertise for a variety of religious, educational, arts and cultural, and social service organizations, including Auburn Theological Seminary, where she directed the Women's Multifaith Program; the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, a museum, archive, and library documenting the immigrant experience in America; the Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York (IYAGNY), a yoga education and teaching-training organization dedicated to disseminating the teachings of B.K.S Iyengar; and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Philadelphia, which serves over 13,000 at-risk youth each year.

Ms. de Jesús received her Master's in Theological Studies from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she specialized in Late Hebrew Bible and the Intertestamental Literature, and participated in several interfaith initiatives, including the Seminarians Interacting program sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. She is a graduate of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where she received her Bachelor's degree in Religion.

Ms. de Jesús is a member of Women in Development, NY (WID) and serves on the Board of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York (IYAGNY).

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