Rising Stars

Rebecca Panfile (slideshow photo 2)
director, 
The Audience Project,
Drama League of New York
Rebecca 
Panfile took over her position as the programmatic head of audience development and donor programs for the Drama League's Audience Project just when the economy was tanking.

Despite — or perhaps because of — that, –and with little training as a fundraiser, she "has approached her tasks in dazzlingly original ways, previously unimagined by her predecessors," writes Gabriel Shanks, executive director of the Drama League of New York. "Her focus on attentive, focused donor interactions has the precision of a surgeon's scalpel but is never over-calculated. She brings a warmth and a personal style to each conversation that has cemented our funders and actually increased our new members."