Carolyn Cavicchio leads the Global Corporate Volunteer Council at IAVE, the International Association for Volunteer Effort. She has significant experience in creating, developing and implementing corporate community investment, social responsibility, and employee engagement programs.
Prior to IAVE, Carolyn was Executive Director of the Northrop Grumman Foundation and Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship, managing $30 million in annual giving. Carolyn joined Northrop Grumman from S&P Global, where she created and was President of the S&P Global Foundation. Prior to S&P Global, she was Associate Director of Colorado Women’s College at the University of Denver. She joined DU after a two-year stint as Interim VP of Programs and Special Assistant to the President at the Ms. Foundation for Women.
In the corporate sector, she was Senior Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Western Union (WU) Foundation, and a senior researcher at The Conference Board, in the Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability. Before joining The Conference Board in 2007, Carolyn founded and for seven years led the Philanthropy Division at Changing Our World, a philanthropic services firm and Omnicom (OMC) agency based in New York City. Following the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Carolyn helped found and served as Deputy Director of the Twin Towers Fund, serving the families of rescue workers killed or seriously injured on 9/11. She started her career with consulting firm TCC Group, with a focus on research and strategic planning for foundations, corporate giving programs, and nonprofit organizations.
With significant experience in a variety of senior roles both national and global, she is an expert in CSR, corporate community involvement and philanthropic programs, and is an highly-skilled strategic planner, facilitator, analyst, and program developer. Carolyn has also been an adjunct professor at NYU’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy, and has served as a board member with local and national nonprofit organizations, addressing food insecurity, disaster response, HIV/AIDS, and volunteerism.