Suzy Pukys is the Vice President of Strategic Philanthropy at the Georgetown Health Foundation (GHF), where she leads the organization’s philanthropic strategy, grantmaking, and community resource initiatives. Since joining GHF in 2012 as its first Director of Community Resources, Suzy has transformed the Foundation’s approach to philanthropy—growing its grants portfolio from $250,000 in 2012 to more than $20 million awarded across 275 strategic multi-year grants, annual responsive grants, and over 400 mini-grants supporting 90+ organizations.

At GHF, Suzy has directed two major strategic planning processes, guiding the Foundation from responsive grantmaking toward multi-year, public-private partnerships and collective impact initiatives. Suzy works collaboratively with the community GHF serves to strengthen its health and human services infrastructure. In 2023, she led the opening of the Carver Center for Families, a community-driven resource hub in Georgetown, where programs are co-created with trusted nonprofit partners and local stakeholders.

Prior to her work at GHF, Suzy partnered with Southwestern University students and faculty to build community-based learning and research projects as the institution’s first Director of Civic Engagement. She began her nonprofit career at The Georgetown Project in 2002, directing a program that strengthened community and school-based services for local youth. 

Suzy has served in leadership roles across numerous boards and collaboratives focused on basic needs, mental health, healthcare, and non-medical drivers of health. Suzy holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Arts in English and History from Hiram College.