Danielle Amato Milligan:
CLASS OF 1978
High School of Music & ArtClass of 1978
New york, NY
New York University - Arts & ScienceClass of 1982
New york, NY
Danielle's Story
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Danielle Amato-Milligan is President of AmatoMilligan & Associates. The firm provides fundraising, management consulting, organizational development, strategic planning services to small, medium and large non-profit arts organizations, foundations, corporations and government agencies focused on the arts. The broad scope of services AM&A has provided its many clients include: completion of strategic and business plans; developing and implementing general fundraising and capital campaign strategies and plans; expansion and training of boards; retreat facilitation; managing leadership transitions through multiple strategies, among them acting in the capacity of interim executive director; executive coaching; and program evaluation and development. Ms. Amato-Milligan has over eighteen years experience as an arts administrator and fund-raiser working with non-profit organizations including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum for African Art, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in the positions of director of development and membership, capital campaign director and fund-raising, marketing and management consultant. Ms. Amato-Milligan has extensive experience as a strategic planner and as a senior level fund-raiser, both as a generalist and a specialist in the areas of institutional annual giving, major gifts, endowments and planned giving. She has developed and maintained a broad base of high-level individual, corporate, and foundation contacts. In addition to her fund-raising and strategic planning capabilities, she has extensive experience in the areas of board development, audience development, managing organizational change, securing and managing human and financial resources, organizational and program assessment, and as a strong administrator and manager. A partial list of clients includes the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ)/Harlem Strategic Cultural Collaborative, an...Expand for more
assemblage of nine Harlem-based cultural institutions, among them the Dance Theater of Harlem, Studio Museum in Harlem, Aaron Davis Hall, Apollo Theater, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture with national and international constituencies, the Romare Bearden Foundation/City wide Romare Bearden Homecoming Celebration (September 2004 - March 2005), a $1.6 million project with over 24 institutional partners throughout the five boroughs, the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution; the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum; the Battery Park City Authority, Materials for the Arts and WQXR (96.3 FM).
She is a Trustee, serving as Vice Chair and Development Chair, of The Medici Archive Project, a non-profit organization based in Florence, Italy and New York, NY, that plays a leadership role in the field of historical research. ItÂs primary mission is the digitization and dissemination of the 3 million documents in the Medici Granducal Archives, as well as to provide post-doctoral fellowships and other programs. She is a former Trustee of ArtTable, the national organization for professional women in the arts, where she served as Chair of the New York Chapter Development Committee. She has been a panelist and speaker for the Association of Fundraising Professionals' annual Fund-Raising Day in New York conference and for New York UniversityÂs several graduate arts administration programs. She is a member of the American Association of Museums and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Ms. Amato-Milligan 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. She began her museum career as a Special Research Assistant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where among other projects she worked with the Associate Curator of Islamic Art on a major exhibition entitled, "The Renaissance of Islam: Art of the Mamluks".
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