Diana Pollard has been a member of the DCC Foundation team for 19 years and now leads its efforts. Pollard has been involved in fundraising in some fashion since 1990. She has risen through the ranks at the Foundation starting as the Coordinator of Annual Fund and Special Events, then promoted to the Assistant Director, then the Executive Director and is now the Associate Vice President of Institutional advancement and Executive Director. She has helped take the DCC Foundation’s net assets from $3.7M in 2005 to more than $17 M in 2024. Diana is a former member of SUNY’s Council for University Advancement Board of Directors and has been a leading member for SUNY’s Community College Chief Advancement Officers group, co-chairing programing for its annual retreat for the past 12 years. She has presented at several conferences for SUNY, AFP, CASE DII and CASE Community College Conference. Under her leadership, the DCC Foundation received the 2019 CASE Educational Fundraising Excellence Award. In 2020 she received the AFP Outstanding Fundraising Professional Award. Her academic credentials consist of a CFRM from the University of Indiana’s Lilly School of Philanthropy and an MBA in marketing.