Michelle Gollapalli is the new executive vice president and chief development officer at Food For The Poor in Coconut Creek, Florida. Gollapalli leads the charity’s major gifts, donor relations, foundations, planned giving, and business development departments.
Gollapalli has more than 25 years’ experience as a fundraising executive at the regional, national and international level. From October 2019 to January 2023, Gollapalli was vice president of development, diversity and inclusion at emergency Care Research Institute in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, where she oversaw the creation and building of a framework for comprehensive fundraising and diversity and inclusion strategies for the patient safety organization.
Her background also includes stints as vice president of development, executive director at the Kennedy Health Care Foundation in Voorhees, N.J., chief development officer at Bancroft in Cherry Hill, New Jersey vice president of philanthropy at Presby’s Inspired Life in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, and associate director, principal & major gifts at the Alzheimer’s Association in Chicago.
