Board Member
Dana M. Heiman is the Chief Advancement & Communications Officer at Surrey since August of 2022. Prior to joining Surrey, she was the Chief Impact Officer at The Alliance for Health Equity (previously the Brandywine Health Foundation). She worked at The Alliance for nearly 20 years in a variety of capacities, beginning as the Vice President for Development & Communications, assumed oversight of the foundation’s grantmaking and special initiatives from 2014 – 2019 and most recently was Chief Impact Officer directing the organization’s development program. Prior to joining the staff at The Alliance, Dana served as the Director of Development at Planned Parenthood of Chester County for more than eight years, and for five years, served in a variety of marketing, communications and development capacities at the Freedom Valley Girl Scout Council. A graduate of Villanova University, with a B.A. in English and Communications, Dana achieved professional certification as a Certified Fund-Raising Executive in 2003 and has been recertified six times. She has served on the Downingtown Area School District STEM Academy’s Advisory Board, the board of directors of The Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry and The Western Chester County Chamber of Commerce, and currently on the Main Line Chamber of Commerce’s Society of Professional Women’s Advisory Board, in addition to serving on a variety of other community advisory boards and committees. She was the 2018 March of Dimes Chester County Women of Achievement Honoree in the Field of Health. She is a graduate of the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI) at Bryn Mawr College and a Fellow of the Grantmakers in Health Terrance Keenan Institute.
