Matt Honeycutt is Chief Development Officer for the Food Bank for New Yok City. He joined the team in July of this year as Food Bank was just coming out of its COVID crisis response. Today, Food Bank is on track to deliver over 100 million pounds of food to families in need across the five Boroughs, and Matt leads the team of marketing, advocacy, and fundraising professionals dedicated to ensuring the resources are there to provide healthy meals to over 1.8 million families in New York City.

Before joining Food Bank, Matt served as the Vice President of Development at Feeding Westchester where he developed an amazing team of professionals and helped create and cast the vision for the organization’s marketing, fundraising, and volunteer initiatives. 

Most recently, Matt helped lead Feeding Westchester’s response to the COVID pandemic.  During this time, Feeding Westchester doubled distribution to 20MM pounds, grew revenue by more than 400%, and gained international, as well as national attention, for its response to the crisis. Since March, the Feeding Westchester team has consulted with Feeding Hong Kong to develop its Mobile Pantry program, assisted over 100 food banks in the Feeding America Network with material support for fundraising, doubled the organization’s major giving program, and produced the first televised celebrity fundraising television show for Feeding Westchester.

Before food banking, Matt spent over two decades in education as a teacher, coach, and senior fundraiser for schools from Charlotte, NC to Greenwich, CT. He also led fundraising and marketing for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National MS Society where he developed a diverse family of special events, created the Chapter’s first major giving program, and doubled the size of the organization’s corporate giving and engagement initiatives.  

Matt is a graduate of Winthrop University in South Carolina, where he earned his bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing and a Master's Degree in English literature.  Because of this, he’s been asked to lead the creative process on every case statement, proposal, annual fund solicitation, and thank you letter ever written –everywhere he’s ever worked.  And, his father is still surprised, to this day, that Matt managed to actually have a career with not one, but two degrees in English Literature.