EILEEN COOGAN BOYLE
President & CEO, Allegany Franciscan Ministries, Inc.

Eileen joined Allegany Franciscan Ministries, Inc. in May 2005.  She has more than 20 years in non-profit management and leadership. 

Before joining AFM, she was executive vice president of United Way of Palm Beach County. Prior to her family’s move to Florida in 1996, she was executive director of LynnArts and before that spent ten years with Project Bread - The Walk for Hunger, originally a ministry of The Paulist Center in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Eileen is involved with the Tampa Bay Funders’ Forum, and serves on several boards including Blue Ridge Institute for Southern Community Service Executives, Florida Philanthropic Network, United Way of Florida and United Way of Pasco County.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Eileen earned an MSW from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.  She lives in Trinity, Florida with her husband, Bob, their 12-year-old son, Jimmy, two dogs and a gerbil.  In her free time, she enjoys running (slowly) and reading (quickly).