Ellen Barker

Ellen Barker joined the Outreach staff as Vice President for Development and Communications in 2022 to help further the agency’s marketing and fundraising capacities. Prior to Outreach, she was the Executive Director of The Floating Hospital Foundation, the fundraising arm of this NYC-based federally qualified health center, the Senior Director of Engagement at the national advocacy organization Physicians for Reproductive Health, and the Program Manager of the Children’s Aid Society’s Go! Healthy Program in NYC.

Ellen has over 30 years of experience fundraising for a variety of local and national not-for-profits. She chaired the Alliance of Resident Theatres/NY annual grant panels for Off-Broadway theatres and has worked as a consultant for the New York State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and as a fundraising consultant for a number of the social service, arts, and advocacy nonprofits. She earned a BA from Bard College and holds a Grand Diplome in Culinary Arts from the French Culinary Institute.