The Immigrant Learning Center (The ILC) is excited to welcome Shelley Reese to the team as Chief

Shelley Reese

Advancement Officer. Shelley joins The ILC with over twenty years of comprehensive development experience with particular expertise in growing fundraising programs.

In her most recent role, Shelley served as the Chief Advancement Officer at Crossroads Continuum. In this role, she worked to expand Crossroads Continuum’s reach – shifting their fundraising efforts from an event-based to an individual-giving based model with multi-channel giving opportunities and segmentation of donor messaging. Previously, Shelley also served as the Director of Development at Nashoba Learning Group and at Park Street School.

As Chief Advancement Officer, Shelley will lead and elevate The ILC’s overall fundraising efforts, elevating the program especially among individual, corporate, and foundation donors. She will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to build a robust and diversified revenue stream. Shelley is excited to join The Immigrant Learning Center as the new Chief Advancement Officer.

About The Immigrant Learning Center (The ILC) 

The Immigrant Learning Center (The ILC) was founded in 1992 by Diane Portnoy. Her vision to open a free school where adult immigrants can learn English stemmed from her own immigrant experience as the daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, and later, her role as a public-school teacher, where she saw students struggle to learn the language. Under her leadership, The ILC grew from three classrooms serving 60 students a year to a nationally recognized education center that now serves hundreds of students at a time.

For more information about The Immigrant Learning Center, please visit https://www.ilctr.org/