About Jen Jacobs

Jen Jacobs’ very first nonprofit job was at a tiny arts organization in New York City in the late 1990s, where she learned about fundraising and fell in love with working for the greater good. In 2022, she joined the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank as its Chief Collaboration Officer.

After New York City, Jen moved to Oakland, California, where she served as Director of Development for the National Housing Law Project, an organization working to advance housing justice, preserve affordable housing, and strengthen federal housing policies. After four years in the San Francisco Bay Area, she came back home to the East Coast and settled in Charlottesville. In 2006, she joined Albemarle Housing Improvement Program, a local nonprofit that delivers critical home repairs and rehabs for low-income homeowners, as their Director of Development. In 2009, she was appointed as Executive Director.

Jen was raised by federal workers just outside of the Beltway, in Laurel, Maryland, and attended James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She lives in Crozet with her two kids and a Boxer-Blackmouth Cur mix named Dexter.