Assistant Vice President, Gift Planning
Northwell Health Foundation
New Hyde Park, NY
https://www.northwell.edu
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Alexandra P. Brovey, JD, LLM is a leader in the philanthropic field with more than 25 years of gift planning experience at large educational and health care nonprofit organizations.

Alex is the assistant vice president, gift planning at Northwell Foundation in New York, which just successfully completed a $1.4 billion campaign. She previously worked at the Pennsylvania State University, Pace University and Stony Brook University during comprehensive campaigns. Earlier in her career she focused on estate planning as a member of the Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York bars. 

Alex is a board member of the American Council on Gift Annuities; member and president emeritus of the Philanthropic Planning Group of Greater New York; and board member and past treasurer of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners, chair of the Leadership Institute and a mentor. She is also a member of the Estate Planning Council of Long Island. Alex is a frequent national lecturer on topics related to charitable giving and serves on the editorial board of Planned Giving Today and the philanthropy advisory board of Trusts & Estates.

Alex earned a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University, Phi Beta Kappa, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and an LL.M. in Estate Planning from the University of Miami School of Law. Alex has a published trilogy on Zen and the Art of Fundraising.

Fun Facts About Alex

What was your first job?

My first full-time job in gift planning was as a Planned Giving Officer at Penn State University (my undergraduate alma mater). However, as a practicing attorney for the law firm that handled many of Penn State’s legal matters, I actually started work on the outside for the Office of Planned Giving and Endowments in 1996, moving to Penn State to take on that role full-time in 1999.

If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?

If I could eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be Death by Chocolate—the #1 rated Penn State Creamery ice cream. Yes, it’s as good as it sounds.

Name one cool feature you would add to your dream house.

One cool feature I would add to my dream house is a Japanese garden in a courtyard in the middle of my home, with a hot tub.

If you could learn one new personal skill, what would it be?

I love languages and would like to learn American Sign Language (ASL).
And after visiting Hawaii, I would like to move there and learn Hawaiian, too!