Erin Burns

Vice President, Client Partnerships

Erin is an accomplished fundraiser with extensive experience across multiple philanthropic sectors, including higher education, social services, museums, and healthcare. Currently, in addition to being a member of the Angeletti Group, she leads development and marketing for Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity, where she enhanced fundraising initiatives by optimizing sponsorship opportunities, increasing individual and organizational support, and establishing robust database management and stewardship standards.

Driven by a passion for relationship-building, Erin believes thoughtful stewardship and database integrity is essential for effective prospect management and fundraising success. Her extensive background in event management, coupled with her active community involvement, provides a solid foundation for advancing key initiatives and achieving exceptional philanthropic outcomes.

Earlier in her career, Erin was the Associate Director of Development at Widener University in Chester, PA, where she was a key contributor to a $65 million fundraising campaign, overseeing fundraising initiatives for a new building to house the School of Nursing and the Oskin Leadership Institute. She also served as Director of the Capital Campaign for Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum, leading an $88 million campaign to relocate the museum to historic Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park. Prior to that, she directed fundraising efforts for six priority areas at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ – working closely with Institute Directors and Deans. In addition, she held roles at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, including Director of Donor Relations, Associate Director of Major Gifts, and Assistant Director of Annual Giving, where she was instrumental in a successful capital campaign from 2000 to 2004. She began her career 25 years ago as a Funds Development Assistant at the Children’s Home Society of New Jersey in Trenton, NJ.

Erin’s enthusiasm for development was sparked during her undergraduate years at Gettysburg College where she earned a BA in Sociology. As a student, she interned with the Alumni Office and the Executive Director of the Commission on the Future, a project that involved nearly 400 alumni, parents, and friends in a strategic planning process, ultimately laying the foundation for Gettysburg College’s $100 million campaign, The Unfinished Work. Erin remains an engaged alumna and volunteer, earning the Young Alumni Award for Service in 2014 and co-chaired her 25th Reunion Committee.

Erin and her husband, Bill, a partner at the law firm Hartman | Duff, LLC, live at the Jersey Shore, with their two children: Erin is actively involved in several local volunteer and civic organizations.