With more than 20+ years of experience and leadership in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors, Ms. Maritza Arroyo, guided by her core values of equity, justice, and service, has dedicated her career to developing comprehensive, systems change initiatives, raising over $150 million to provide critical resources and programs for NYC most vulnerable children, youth, older adults, and families.

Maritza joins BroSis from the Fund for Public Health NYC (FPHNYC), a $140 million-dollar nonprofit that is the City-affiliated fund for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. As Chief Development Officer, in collaboration with the CEO, board of directors, and the Commissioner’s office, she led the strategy and execution of the organization’s external affairs functions: fundraising, public private partnerships, cultivation and stewardship, government relations, board engagement, branding and marketing and communications, and event planning. This past FY24, she secured $30M, a 26% increase; secured an average award size of $2.1M, a 44% increase; designed and led a re-branding and marketing and communications plan; and designed and launched an $11 million dollar birth equity fundraising campaign.

Prior to FPHNYC, Maritza served for three years as an Assistant Commissioner at the NYC Department for the Aging. In October 2019 she was appointed as Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Direct Services, where she was responsible for a $25 million health, intergenerational, and workforce development portfolio, overseeing a staff of 45 and 300 volunteers. In December of 2020, Maritza was appointed to serve at the agency in three roles; as Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Public-Private Partnerships; as Liaison for the Age Friendly NYC Commission, comprised of 20 cross sector leaders; and as in- kind Executive Director for the Aging in New York Fund. Within these three synergistic roles, Maritza led fundraising/resource development efforts for the agency, designing and launching initiatives and securing significant funding and strategic partnerships, securing $5M for workforce development programs and securing partnerships.

Prior to joining NYC Aging, Maritza has held several leadership roles throughout NYC where she successfully led strategy, program design, implementation and impact, and fundraising; Vice President of Education at United Way of New York City where she led the educational practice and policy on student success in high poverty schools; CEO of the Promise neighborhood grantee Zone 126 where she designed and led a Cradle to Career strategy, providing a holistic programmatic framework for children, youth, families, and older adults in Astoria and Long Island City, and; Executive Director of the national organization BellXcel– previously Building Educated Leaders for Life – where she led high- quality after-school and evidence-based summer programs, tripling its revenue and increasing student math and literacy skills.

Ms. Arroyo is a graduate of Hofstra University and received an Executive Leadership certificate from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2014, she was selected to the inaugural cohort of the Presidio Institute/White House Cross Sector Fellowship, selected in 2015 as a Ricardo Salinas Scholar at the Aspen Institute and in 2016 appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to the NYC Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board. She is a former Board Member of the Community Educational Council District #30. Maritza loves NYC and lives in Astoria with her son Dylan and their three sweet cats, Plato, Charlie, and Tita.