The Goldie B. Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative (The Goldie Initiative®), a nonprofit organization designed to prepare women for senior leadership roles in all sectors of commercial real estate, has announced that Megan Roth Abraham, former executive director at The Goldie Initiative from 2016-2020, has been appointed as the organization’s first chief executive officer.
An entrepreneurial non-profit builder and executive based in Chicago, Abraham has made a career as a leader in nonprofits and associations to expand and scale. She most recently served as the chief advancement officer of JCC Chicago, and her experience includes roles at the National Association of Realtors, the International Real Property Foundation, the International Consortium of Real Estate Associations, and other organizations. She also serves on faculty at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership.
The Goldie Initiative was founded by Wolfe Miller in 2007 to provide scholarship support for graduate study, as well as a suite of mentorship, leadership development, and networking opportunities for the Goldie Scholars®, women in commercial real estate carefully selected for their potential as future industry trailblazers. To date, The Goldie Initiative has supported nearly 150 Goldie Scholars at 18 graduate schools nationwide, including the University of Wisconsin, Roosevelt University, Georgetown, the University of Chicago, DePaul University and New York University, to name a few. In 2022, the organization’s sixth annual ‘Goldie Gala’ raised more than $1 million for the Goldie Scholars program, drawing on support from over 180 commercial real estate firms and nonprofit organizations.
In her new role as CEO of The Goldie Initiative, Abraham will lead the charge to shape the next generation of commercial real estate leaders by expanding opportunities for mentorship, providing unique and impactful career development activities and awarding generous scholarships at esteemed graduate school programs nationwide.
CRE professionals interested in helping achieve the mission of The Goldie Initiative can get involved in multiple ways, including as a mentor via the organization’s innovative mentorship program (https://goldieinitiative.org/mentor-program/). Additionally, scholarship applications for the 2023 class of Goldie Scholars will be open from April 1 to June 4, 2023. More information on qualifying to become a Goldie Scholar is available here: https://goldieinitiative.org/scholarship/.
