Stephanie Vargas joined Operation Homefront in February 2025 and, as Vice President of Individual Giving, leads a team of dynamic fundraising professionals, guiding the individual giving strategy in concert with direct response initiatives to introduce, and steward with excellence, Operation Homefront’s important mission to individual donors seeking to make a difference. Stephanie Vargas is a seasoned nonprofit fundraising executive with broad experience in revenue generation and growth, relationship management, strategic planning and executive leadership. She previously served as the Director of Individual Giving for Operation Gratitude. During that time, Stephanie led managers in corporate and foundations grants, donor acknowledgement and donor relations and increased the organization’s annual fund, mid-level, and major giving. Before joining Operation Gratitude in 2022, she was the Senior Director of Development, West Region for The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation in Alexandria, VA, where she secured the largest multi-year commitment in the organization’s history and established long-term funding through multi-year and blended gifts, producing significant revenue growth year over year.
She has worked in nonprofit fundraising for 20 years. Stephanie received her bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in public administration from California State University, San Bernardino.