Sheila Baker

Sheila Baker brings 47 years of dedicated experience in the nonprofit sector, with expertise in administration, fundraising, project management, workforce development, economic development, and special events.

She currently serves as Director of Development for the Coalition for the Homeless, where she has spent the past 17 years strengthening fundraising efforts that support programs serving individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Before her current role, Sheila served as Development Director at the Alzheimer’s Memory Center, where she led fundraising initiatives to support individuals and families affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Her extensive career also includes a range of leadership and program management roles with the Northern Virginia Urban League. There, she served as Executive Assistant to the CEO, Assistant Project Director of the South Fairfax Business Resource Center, Project Coordinator for the Interagency Consortium on Adolescent Pregnancy, and Assistant Director of the Alexandria Resource Mothers Project, a program supporting pregnant and parenting teens, including those experiencing homelessness.

She also served as Director of the Atlanta Women’s Business Center. In this U.S. Small Business Administration initiative, she designed and led programs providing counseling, business management support, technical assistance, and helping women entrepreneurs gain access to capital.