Dro Abrahamian

Executive Director

Though growing up in a suburban white middle-class homogeneous neighborhood outside of Philadelphia, being a second-generation American-born citizen, Dro understood early on and embraced his Armenian ancestry. His empathetic nature and life works were molded by his grandparents’ stories of being children refugee survivors of Genocide. In grade school, he wanted to be a writer; in middle school, an architect; in high school, a marketing executive; in college a social psychologist; and in graduate school, a corporate librarian. He ended up in Fundraising and Non-Profit work. It is where he has been able to combine all his prior interests and use his skills in story-telling, strategic planning/building design, salesmanship, organizational group behavior, and knowledge management to shape and form business decisions, always in mind of helping others and creating a better world.

Dro started his career in the operational side of fundraising in Higher Education, and then Healthcare, making a name for himself for strategizing with the front-end fundraisers, developing a donor-centric, service-minded philosophy. He built up a strong reputation and started his own consulting business helping small and large institutions, adding to the mix social service agencies, arts and culture, and faith-based organizations. 

When the Recession hit in 2008, Dro’s businesses dried up, but he was able to regroup and in 2010, moved his family to Southern California for an opportunity to head the foundation of a 500-bed hospital. He then subsequently held positions of Chief Fundraising Officer for Interface Children & Family Services; Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County; and Director of Development for RAND’s San Francisco Bay Area office. He then went on to become COO of ASIAN, Inc., a San Francisco-based organization whose mission is to help the Asian community with small business development, first-time home ownership and low-moderate income housing.

Dro brings to VCRC his history of working with diverse social, generational, ethnic and religious communities to come together for a common cause. He has been credited for how he sees seemingly disparate movements and knows not only how to connect them, but how to maximize on results. He looks forward to leading VCRC in the next chapter of its life’s works.       

Skip to content