Anthony Escobar

As the Chief Development Officer, Anthony Escobar provides leadership of all fundraising initiatives and activities tailored to engaging the YMCA’s individual, corporate, and foundation donors.

Anthony previously spent more than 20 years as a fundraising professional at universities and non-profit organizations in New York and Los Angeles. Most recently, Anthony served as Associate Dean of External Affairs for the UCLA School of Law where he led the school in achieving a record-breaking fundraising year in FY19 with close to $33 million in funds raised and surpassing their overall campaign goal of $150 million six months early (part of the university’s $4.2 billion campaign). Before joining UCLA, Anthony served as executive director of development and interim chief development officer at WNET, the flagship PBS station in New York. In those roles, Anthony co-led a team of more 70 development, marketing, and communications professionals, playing a vital role in the organization's success in raising more than $175 million over two years.

He previously served as a major gift officer at Cornell University's College of Engineering, helping to raise more than $30 million annually as part of university’s historic $5 billion comprehensive campaign. Earlier in his career, he was director of development, planning, and administration for NYU's Polytechnic Institute and assistant director of alumni relations at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education. His broad experience has included fundraising work with individual donors, corporations and institutions; development of advisory boards; designing and launching alumni relations and alumni outreach initiatives; creating new awards programs and alumni-related events; and overseeing marketing and communications staff. He earned his bachelor's degree from NYU.