Elizabeth Anderson Ferruelo

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ABOUT ELIZABETH ANDERSON FERRUELO

Elizabeth is an accomplished fundraiser and skilled writer who believes that advancing economic mobility is a shared responsibility. When we commit to this, we also strengthen the social fabric of the country. She is intellectually curious and driven and has built a track record of securing the funding and partnerships to enable social impact. Elizabeth currently serves as chief development officer of i.c.stars, an educational nonprofit and social enterprise that advances economic mobility through job skills training. In this role, she identifies the resources and stewards the relationships to support growth, including expansion into new markets such as Milwaukee and Kansas City. She leads and works alongside teams who secure grant funding through storytelling and data, engage in ecosystem building, and generate earned income through i.c.stars’ employment social enterprise. During her time at i.c.stars, the organization’s budget has grown by nearly 400%- from $1.7M in 2015 to $8M in 2024. She has worked with partners including New Profit, REDF, ICONIQ, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, and Strada Education Foundation, among others. i.c.stars was awarded a MacKenzie Scott grant in 2023. Elizabeth has spoken at ASU/GSV, Yelp Fireside Chat with Chief Diversity Officer Miriam Warren, Forefront: Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance/CCAPS Work-Based Learning Series, and Chicagoland Workforce Funder’s Alliance: Employment Social Enterprise panel. She has contributed to Forbes, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and other platforms. Elizabeth speaks French fluently and, to a lesser extent, Spanish and German.Prior to joining i.c.stars in 2015, Elizabeth served in various nonprofit roles, where she managed program design and execution, PR/media relations, donor communications, and corporate and community partnerships. Skills: Foundation Relations, Corporate Relations, Nonprofit Boards, Grants, Budgeting, Revenue Forecasting, Impact Hackathons, Ecosystem Building, Financial Analysis, Audit, Salesforce, Community Partnerships, Proposal Writing, Volunteer Engagement, Social Enterprise, Inclusive Entrepreneurship, Blogging, Nonprofit Leadership.