Staff
Karen FitzGerald
kfitzgerald@meyerfdn.org
Program Officer
Karen FitzGerald specializes in grantmaking in the areas of housing and community development, homelessness, civic engagement, and early childhood education. Before joining the Meyer Foundation staff in 1998, she worked for the Enterprise Community Investment, which syndicates Low-Income Housing Tax Credits to finance affordable rental housing throughout the country.
Karen co-chairs the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers Program and Policy Coordinating Committee. Through Washington Grantmakers' Sustainable Communities Working Group, which she co-chaired from 2006 to 2008, she co-founded and currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Partnership for Prince George's County, a funding collaborative that aims to build the nonprofit sector in Prince George's County and strengthen the ability of nonprofits there to engage in advocacy. Karen also serves on the steering committees of the Community Development Support Collaborative, which she co-chaired from 2004 through 2006, and the Washington Area Women's Foundation's Early Childhood Education Funding Collaborative.
In 2007, she joined the board of the Neighborhood Funders Group, the national affinity group of funders who support community-based efforts to improve low-income urban neighborhoods and rural communities, and is chairing this year's NFG's Audit Committee.
Karen earned her BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Yale University.