Advisory Board Member Profile
Almirca Santiago
Hispanic Federation
Senior Director for Grantmaking and Operations |
Areas of Expertise
The Design Thinking Organization
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Almirca Santiago, is a nonprofit management leader with over 15 years of experience dedicated to strengthening and building capacity to address the needs of Hispanics and immigrant communities. Currently she is the Senior Director for Grantmaking and Operations at the Hispanic Federation (HF), the nation’s premier Latino nonprofit membership organization with offices along the east coast and Puerto Rico. For over 5 years, she has held roles that are key to the organization’s expansion, operations, compliance/risk management, government contracting, capacity building and grantmaking. Most recently, she has led the management and distribution of over $6 million in emergency recovery grants since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For almost a decade, prior to her work at HF, Almirca managed special projects at the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR), a local grassroots non-profit. She managed annual Get Out the Vote initiatives as well as the Census 2010 campaign, in addition to overall program development, fundraising and efforts to improve organizational structures. With extensive knowledge of NMCIR’s policy campaigns, she was often a spokesperson for pressing community issues, appearing on local and national media, both print and television. Almirca holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations with a concentration on Human Rights from Syracuse University and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Baruch College School of Public Affairs. She is a native New Yorker and is fluent in English, Spanish and proficient in French.
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