Please join me in welcoming the newest member of the ACHA team, National Director of Development Georgia Krehbiel. Some of you may have met Georgia in April at our Los Angeles Regional Event, where she hit the ground running before her official start date later in the month.
Georgia brings more than 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience to the ACHA team. Working in both international and bi-state medical organizations as Chief Development Officer and Director of Development, she has extensive experience and success in securing funds through major gifts, corporate sponsorship, planned giving, grants, and events. In her role with ACHA, Georgia will lead fundraising strategies through a multi-year integrated development plan that will include annual appeal, major gifts, corporate sponsorship and planned giving.
Georgia’s interest in ACHA is both professional and personal, as her husband has a CHD that was not diagnosed until he was an adult. In 2014, he had a successful valve sparing procedure and aneurysm repair—procedures that came after more than a decade of monitoring his CHD.
As Georgia says, “Dealing with my husband’s CHD and surgery is the most difficult and profound thing our family has faced. We truly understand the importance of lifelong care. I am so pleased to have the opportunity to use my skills to hopefully make a difference and improve the lives of others born with heart defects.”
Welcome, Georgia!
Sincerely,
Glenn R. Tringali
National Executive Director