Kim Gattle is the director of fundraising and institutional advancement for the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
Gattle is the first alumna of the Center's Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies degree program to head its development efforts.
She is a member of that program's inaugural graduating class and a graduate of The Fund Raising School at the Center. From 2002 until 2005,
she was a member of the Center's board of governors. Gattle was a leader in helping to create the Center on Philanthropy Alumni Association
and served as its president in 2000-2001. She became a faculty member of The Fund Raising School in 2007.
Before joining the Center, Gattle was executive associate director of major and planned gifts for the Indiana University School of
Medicine, the second largest medical school in the nation. During that time the school successfully completed a comprehensive $375 million
capital campaign.
Gattle's professional life include leadership in both private business and the nonprofit sector. She previously was Vice President of
Gattle's, a 107-year-old, multidivisional retail corporation. Her career in the nonprofit sector includes serving as director of development
for Walther Cancer Institute and as executive director of New Hope Development Corporation, a residential rehabilitation facility in
Indianapolis.
Committed to serving her community, Gattle has been an active participant on several non-profit boards, both in Naples, Florida and
Indianapolis, Indiana.
In addition to a master’s degree from the Center on Philanthropy, Gattle earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, and
studied at both the University of Guanajuato in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and the Instituto de Lengua Espanol in San Jose, Costa Rica.