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Abigail J. Franklin, MFA, joined The New York Academy of Medicine as Vice President for Development and Communications on April 15, 2013. Ms. Franklin is an accomplished non-profit executive with more than 20 years experience in fundraising, communications, and marketing for a variety of institutions including the New York Common Pantry, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Columbia University, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Ms. Franklin most recently served for three years as Director of Development and Communications for the newly rebranded East Harlem-based New York Common Pantry (formerly Yorkville), the city’s largest single-site emergency food provider. As a fundraising executive for the Pantry, she designed and successfully carried out strategies to increase gifts from individuals by 21 percent and increased the number of institutional grants the Pantry received. As a marketing executive, she introduced social media techniques to expand the Pantry's reach, resulting in a 27-percent increase in the number of community volunteers engaged in the Pantry's work. The Pantry received extensive media coverage, including NBC Nightly News, Fox 5 News, and New York1 "New Yorker of the Week" for its executive director.
Ms. Franklin previously served as Vice President for Endowment Resources where she brought leadership and strategy to the foundation's historic $35 million endowment campaign. She also served briefly as interim Vice President for Communications. From 1990 to 2003, Ms. Franklin had a long association with Columbia University, where she was promoted to successively more responsible positions, including Director of Development for the School of the Arts, Director of Development for Columbia College, and Senior Development Officer for the Arts and Sciences during Columbia's $4 billion capital campaign.
Prior to her tenure at Columbia, Ms. Franklin served as Associate Director of Development for the internationally renowned Brooklyn Academy of Music and produced tours for BAM's NextWave Festival. She also produced award-winning theater productions Off-Broadway.
Ms. Franklin is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale University. She and her family live in Harlem.
Contact information
afranklin@nyam.org; 212-822-7244
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AGE-FRIENDLY NYC is a a program created by The New York Academy of Medicine, the NYC Council and the Office of the Mayor. This video provides an introduction to the process of creating an Age-Friendly City.
