Katherine Bulifant - Associate Athletics Director for Development - Staff Directory

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Katherine Bulifant

Title:
Associate Athletics Director for Development
Email:
Phone:
287-1283

Katherine Bulifant was promoted to Associate Athletics Director for Development in July 2025, four years after she first joined Spider Athletics as the department's Assistant AD for Annual Giving. In her current role, Bulifant directs Spider Athletics' development efforts, which ensure that UR student-athletes have the resources necessary to excel athletically, academically, personally, and professionally.

Bulifant came to UR after spending the two years at Collegiate School in Richmond, serving as the Annual Giving Officer. She was the Chair of Collegiate’s annual day of giving, Cougar Pride Day, which resulted in over 950 gifts and raising over $330,000 in donations, a 136% increase from the previous year. She also spent a year at Collegiate as the Associate Director of Annual Giving (2019-20).

Bulifant spent five years in the Longwood University Office of Development, spending her final two years as the Director of Annual Giving (2017-19). She managed a portfolio of over 70 prospects and coordinated four marketing campaigns in the fiscal year. She chaired Longwood’s annual day of giving, Love Your Longwood Day, resulting in 2,800 total gifts and raising over $325,000. Her work helped the annual day of giving see a 86% increase in faculty and staff giving and a 134% in student giving.

Bulifant also spent time at Longwood as the Director of Campus Philanthropy (2014-17) and an Interim Development Officer (2014). She graduated from Longwood with a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice in 2013 and a Master of Science in sociology in 2014. She earned an Institute of Philanthropy Certificate from the University of Richmond in 2015.