FUN FACT

Allyson's work with the St. Croix Foundation for Community Development and its Nonprofit Consortium demonstrates something beyond fundraising: the ability to strengthen an entire nonprofit ecosystem.  

With Allyson's support, The Foundation launched the Nonprofit Consortium in 2016 to strengthen St. Croix’s civic sector. It convenes roughly 30 nonprofits around sustainability, impact, organizational capacity, collaboration, and data. The Foundation describes the initiative as deliberately replacing organizational isolation and competition with greater trust and collective action.

Allyson's international impact includes her work with the CUNY International Fellows Program, the Transatlantic Community Foundation Network, European Foundation Centre publications, international civil-society scholarly efforts, the German Marshall Fellowship, and subsequent work in Bermuda, Barbados, Canada, Italy, Uganda, Tanzania, and other corners of the world. 

Early in her career, Allyson developed an international perspective on philanthropy and civil society, conducting research through CUNY's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and contributing profiles of leading philanthropic institutions to Springer's International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Her work examined organizations ranging from the Ford and Mott foundations to Ashoka and the Bertelsmann Foundation, experiences that helped shape her understanding of how philanthropy, institutions, and community leadership intersect.