Dublin Simon Community
Emma Kilkenny has a strong background in fundraising and communications. Emma is currently the Head of Fundraising & Communications at Dublin Simon Community, a position they have held since November 2019. Prior to this, they served as the Head of Individual Giving & Finance at Sightsavers Ireland from June 2017 to October 2019. From July 2014 to November 2015, Emma worked as the Head of Supporter Relationship Management at Action for Children. Emma also held various roles at the organization, including Interim Head of Direct Marketing and Direct Marketing Consultant. Before that, Emma worked at Oxfam Australia from 2009 to 2013, where they served as the Supporter Development Manager and Regular Giving Manager. At Oxfam Ireland, Emma worked as a Fundraising Executive from 2005 to 2008.
Emma Kilkenny attended Santa Sabina School in Sutton, Dublin from 1996 to 2001. Afterward, they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology at DBS in Dublin, Ireland from 2002 to 2005.
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Dublin Simon Community
Dublin Simon Community works to prevent and address homelessness in Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan & Louth. We provide services at all stages of homelessness and enable people to move to a place they can call home. At Simon, we listen to people who turn to us for help and do everything we can to support them to move out of homelessness into independent living. We strive to empower people to access, secure and retain a home of their own by reducing the reliance on short-term emergency accommodation and providing permanent supported housing for people to sustain a home in their local community. Moving people into supported housing produces life-enhancing and life-saving results and is more cost-effective in the long run. The organisation was founded by a group of Trinity and UCD students in 1969, who began by providing much-needed soup and sandwiches to people who were sleeping rough in Dublin city centre. In addition to the Soup Run, which still goes out 365 nights of the year, Dublin Simon provide many services which aim to help those who are sleeping rough on the streets, people who are in their own accommodation but at risk of homelessness and those who are at any of the stages in between. (Charity number CHY 5963).