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The International Institute of New England Hires Alexa Drolette as its Senior Director of Principal and Major Gifts

  January 13, 2025

BOSTON January 13, 2025 – The International Institute of New England (IINE), one of the region’s longest-established nonprofits serving refugees and immigrants, announces Alexa Drolette as its new senior director of principal and major gifts. 

An accomplished fundraiser, Alexa will elevate IINE’s individual and major giving portfolio and oversee the individual giving team. She will partner with IINE senior leadership to provide individual donors and prospects with opportunities to deepen their relationships with IINE, growing their knowledge and support of its critical work supporting refugee and immigrant communities.  

“I am thrilled to welcome Alexa to our team,” said Xan Weber, senior vice president and chief advancement officer. “Recent years have shown us that we cannot rely on government funding to safeguard our organization’s long-term stability. Alexa’s development expertise and passion for protecting human rights will be critical to engaging individual donors, ensuring we have the resources, infrastructure, and resilience to deliver another century of life-changing services to some of our most vulnerable community members.”    

Alexa most recently worked as the director of development and communications at Lowell Community Charter Public School, where she served as the lead fundraiser and communications specialist with a focus on their ongoing capital campaign. Prior to this role, she was the senior director of development at Project Bread, where she worked since 2014, holding several development positions throughout her tenure and leading the strategy and management of individual giving, corporate, and peer-to-peer event fundraising. At Project Bread, Alexa raised more than $5M annually and successfully grew individual giving from $1.8M in 2020 to $4M by prioritizing the retention of COVID emergency donors.  

“Over its 100+-year history, IINE has helped thousands of newcomers put down roots in New England, learn English, secure jobs, and become citizens. I am proud to be joining an organization doing such critical work, especially at a time when immigrant protections are under threat,” said Drolette. “I am excited to work with the IINE team and our dedicated community to deepen our ability to welcome, support, and defend the rights of our newest neighbors, colleagues, classmates, and friends.”  

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND

The International Institute of New England (IINE) creates opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement and pathways to citizenship. With locations in Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts and Manchester, New Hampshire, IINE serves more than 20,000 individuals annually, including people displaced by political instability, violence, and climate crises, child and adult survivors of human trafficking, and unaccompanied children joining family members in New England. IINE offers a comprehensive range of programs and services to help newcomers feel welcome; achieve stability and security; access resources in their new communities; advance their education and employment goals; and integrate into their communities. IINE’s expertise builds on more than a century of service and accomplishes its mission in partnership with community groups, stakeholders, and supporters throughout New England.


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