Meet the IDEAL Foundation Executive Director: Nicole Juday

With over 20 years in the nonprofit sector, Nicole Juday has spent her career engaging audiences through program development and implementation and designing and executing fundraising strategies for a range of nonprofit organizations. Her work in development has included leading major gift programs, heading multimillion fundraising campaigns, spearheading audience engagement programs and developing and managing large-scale strategic projects.

In 2022, Nicole became the Executive Director of the IDEAL Industries Foundation. Attracted by the opportunity to provide philanthropic solutions for the IDEAL Industries employees, customers and surrounding communities. Here, she works to align the Foundation’s charitable activities with the IDEAL business strategy. To maximize impact, this includes an emphasis on increasing participation by women and people of color in the skilled trades. Nicole also leads the IDEAL community relations initiatives, working to build external relationships with elected officials, civic leaders, cultural organizations and social service organizations.

Nicole has served on many nonprofit boards and has a certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and a certificate in High Impact Philanthropy from the University of Pennsylvania.