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Michelle DiSabato Program Consultant

Michelle DiSabato is an independent consultant with more than 12 years experience in successfully developing, designing and implementing key business and programmatic strategies. These programs included managing and executing U.S. and international, multi-million dollar philanthropic initiatives and programmatic social impact analyses.

Formerly, Ms. DiSabato was Manager of Planning and Reporting - Corporate Contributions in the New York office of Altria Corporate Services, Inc. and an independent freelance consultant specializing in contributions programs, reporting, measurement and systems. She has extensive experience in the corporate affairs arena, including corporate contributions, strategic and financial planning, event planning/execution, community involvement and government affairs planning. She has served on the Corporate Affairs Management Team and Global Contributions Council at Altria, executive committees focused on strategy and organizational development.

Ms. DiSabato is a leader who is a catalyst for solutions in change, process and project management. Over the past few years, she has led the charge on capturing, reporting and measuring the impact of company-wide giving, which totaled more than $200M. In developing programmatic measurement initiatives she has worked with external grantees to build their capacity to develop and define a set of tools and techniques to articulate the intended outcomes of their programs. To accomplish this work Ms. DiSabato leveraged the outcome measurement model developed by The Rensselaerville Institute, with whom she partnered on multiple outcome measurement projects. In addition, she has played an active role in the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) to identify an approach for benchmarking and measuring the impact of philanthropy.

During her tenure at Altria, Ms. DiSabato received international business experience while working in Brussels, Belgium and Lausanne, Switzerland. While on assignment, she managed all international philanthropy efforts and internal communications on company’s giving.

Previously, she led a cross-functional team in developing and implementing a contributions management system (MicroEdge GIFTS) across the company’s global enterprise, including enabling on-line grant making throughout the companies. The system and processes were the precursors for her work in impact measurement.

Ms. DiSabato earned a B.S. in Accounting from St. John’s University and later earned a certificate in Special Event Planning from New York University and a certificate in Corporate Citizenship from Boston College.