Danielle Bluey

Danielle is vice president of philanthropic advising at Climate Lead, where she guides philanthropists to climate aims, while leading a team of senior philanthropic advisors supporting the same effort, each collaboratively acting to enable high-impact solutions for climate problems. She approaches Climate Lead with great enthusiasm for its innovative model and near-term focus on growth. 

At Cornell University, Danielle was the architect, leader, and implementer of 3 new fundraising efforts, the chief strategist and designer for cross-disciplinary fundraising for the University’s Climate and AI Initiatives, and served as a strategic advisor to the University’s provost.  She established and built the fundraising program at the Ann S. Bowers College for Computing and Information Science —tripling year-over-year dollars raised. Also, as the leader of Cornell’s west-located fundraising program, she was responsible for guiding a remote team supporting faculty and students. Previously, Danielle held several leadership roles at the University of California, Berkeley, leading fundraising for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences through two university-wide campaigns, and early in her tenure developed her fundraising skills as leader of the annual fund for Berkeley Law.