Virginia F. Ramsey

Virginia Ramsey Executive Director, INFORM.

"A seasoned management and development professional, Virginia Ramsey brings to INFORM the experience of a career devoted to helping non-profits tighten operations and grow funding to enhance their impact.

"Following her passion for social justice and progressive causes, Virginia has spent her life working effectively on behalf of organizations targeting an array of issues, among them world hunger relief, low-income housing, youth and community service, and the environment.

"Virginia returned to INFORM in 2004, having first worked for the organization in 1975 as an assistant to Joanna D. Underwood, INFORM's founder and former President. As Director of Development, Virginia revitalized the organization's fundraising department and implemented strategies that resulted in steady growth in individual giving. She later helped see INFORM through its first change in leadership when Ms. Underwood left to pursue other activities.

"Virginia is intimately acquainted with INFORM's history, making her uniquely qualified to lead it through its future endeavors. As such, when the new Board of Directors reorganized INFORM in June 2007, they appointed Virginia to head the organization and oversee the strategic development and implementation of new programs and management practices. She welcomes the chance to lead INFORM as it enters a dynamic and innovative new phase in its history.

"Prior to joining INFORM, Virginia served as the assistant to the Associate Director of Major Gifts at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was instrumental in organizing the hospital's annual fundraiser for women's health. From there she moved to the New York Academy of Medicine to be the Associate Director of Development.

"Virginia attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Barnard College where she pursued an independent major in Foreign Area Studies."