Eileen Fitzgerald

Chief Operating Officer

NeighborWorks® America
1325 G St, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005-3100
(202) 220-2300

Biographical Notes

As chief operating officer of NeighborWorks America, Eileen Fitzgerald oversees the organization’s divisions of field operations, national initiatives and applied research, training and organizational assessment.

Fitzgerald, who assumed the chief operating officer role in June 2005, brings nearly 20 years of experience in housing and community development to NeighborWorks America. Previously at the Fannie Mae Foundation, she was responsible for alliance and relationship management with key foundation partners as a senior director of National Initiatives. Fitzgerald has also served as the acting executive director and vice president of program operations at the McAuley Institute, a national nonprofit intermediary committed to improving the housing conditions of women and families through community-based efforts. She also served as the chief investment officer for single-family finance at the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust, a multi-billion dollar investment company, which includes assets from hundreds of pension funds. There, she was responsible for the development and rollout of HIT HOME, a home mortgage program for union members.

From 1994–2000, Fitzgerald served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service as the associate administrator and acting administrator, where she was responsible for management and oversight of single-family, multi-family housing and community facilities programs. She served in both Virginia and Maryland state governments. She is a graduate of Fordham University in New York and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.