YoungGiving - About Us

We love helping people succeed. Jennifer Young, MA, CFRE has over 20 years of experience enabling nonprofit and philanthropic success stories. She provides strong, creative, energetic and strategic guidance for all of her clients’ philanthropic and fundraising activities. 

Jennifer currently serves as President of the HLYoung Foundation and Senior National Planned Giving Development Director for Tel Aviv University's USA fundraising arm. Previously, she led planned giving activities for Jewish Federation of Greater Washington's $185 million endowment. Her development expertise has impacted some of America's most treasured institutions, including the Smithsonian, the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor, and the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Mission. She earned her MA from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Public Policy and Management and studied Classics and Archaeology as an undergraduate at Tulane University and FSU. Jennifer is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE).