About me
Danielle Amato-Milligan is a non-profit advisor and philanthropic strategist/solutions expert with over twenty five years of experience in nonprofit management, strategic organizational development and change management, and fundraising. She has worked with a cross-section of prominent nonprofits focusing on capacity building and organizational sustainability. She speaks frequently on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, philanthropy and the arts and culture sector, as well as on philanthropy and cultural heritage preservation.
She is again President of AmatoMilligan & Associates an international strategic consultancy to arts and cultural organizations, artist foundations and other nonprofit institutions. Previously, for six years, she was a Senior Vice President, Philanthropic Strategist, in the National Consulting & Advisory Practice group at Bank of America based in New York City. Prior to joining the bank, for over a decade Danielle was the president and founder of AmatoMilligan & Associates her management consulting firm working with nonprofit organizations national and internationally in the areas of arts and culture, education, global human services and environmental advocacy. Danielle held leadership positions as Membership Manager, Director of Development and Director of Major Gifts for The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Museum for African Art and as the first Director of Major Gifts/Endowments at The Brooklyn Academy of Music. She began her career as a Special Research Associate at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Danielle graduated from New York University with one of the first inter-disciplinary B.A. honors degrees in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (East & West) with minors in Italian and linguistics (designed for her by The Metropolitan Museum and NYU’s College of Arts &Sciences and The Gallatin School.
She is President the Board of the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC), “which supports conservation, education, research, and outreach activities that increase understanding of our global cultural heritage.” She also President of the Board of the Holt/Smithson Foundation, which preserves the legacy of the artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.
She is also member of the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery (formerly on the Advisory Board), a U.S. based 501(c) 3 organization created to support the ongoing restorations, maintenance and preservation of the artistic treasures in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, and a member of the Women in Development (WID) President’s Council, New York Chapter.
She is a former Trustee of The Medici Archive Project, a nonprofit organization based in Florence, Italy and New York, NY. She is a longtime member and a former Trustee of ArtTable, Inc., and has been a speaker at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, a panelist and speaker for the MA Program in Visual Arts Administration at NYU’s Steinhardt School, a speaker on donor motivations and philanthropy for various chapters of Women in Development, and for the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
