Rachael Sonntag-Bloom joined IsraAID in 2019 as the US Resource Development Director and is based in Los Angeles. She is responsible for developing and implementing internal and external strategies to help provide IsraAID with the resources necessary to achieve its strategic and fundraising goals, and has traveled with IsraAID to Guatemala to see the impact of the organization's work firsthand. Rachael brings over a decade of experience working in the nonprofit sector at a variety of Jewish communal, medical, and philanthropic organizations. 

Prior to joining IsraAID, Rachael was the Director of Development at Jewish World Watch and served as a fundraising consultant for the start-up NGO Save the Syrian Children, which provides medical aid to doctors in Syria. Rachael first got her start in the philanthropy field at California Community Foundation working on immigrant integration and community development issues, the USC Keck School of Medicine as a member of the development team, and as Director of Membership & Development at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. 

Rachael is a former Fellow of the Jewish Federations of North America's OTZMA program, where she worked, lived, and volunteered in Israel for a year, and a member of the Jewish Federations of Greater Los Angeles' Rautenberg New Leaders Project (NLP) class of 2019. She is an alumna of the University of Southern California, graduating with a degree in Political Science, with a specialization in Communications and Nonprofit Management.