Adrienne Vargas

Adrienne serves on The San Diego Foundation’s executive leadership team and oversees strategic direction for growing The San Diego Foundation’s asset base. She leads the Charitable Giving and Donor Relations departments, and develops programs and services to support donor cultivation, stewardship and recognition. Adrienne also leads outreach to professional advisors and designs planned giving programming. Her team of fourteen charitable giving professionals is responsible for creating strong and lasting relationships to grow charitable gifts, stewarding nonprofit charitable assets and promoting philanthropy in the community. Since joining The Foundation in 1997, Adrienne has worked in a variety of capacities, including VP of Fund Services, as well as in the areas of board and volunteer relations, human resources, grantmaking and marketing & communications. Prior to joining The Foundation, Adrienne worked for six years as a development officer for Grossmont Hospital Foundation. She also served as a staff assistant for the Harvard College Fund and as an eighth grade teacher at a parochial school in the Bronx. Adrienne graduated from Fordham University in New York City with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She is active in Estate Planning Council and the Council on Foundation’s affinity group for chief development officers.