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Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2025: CINDY RAHMAN
PRESIDENT AND CEO, MARCH OF DIMES, ARLINGTON COUNTY
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Nonprofits | Philanthropy 2025: CINDY RAHMAN
PRESIDENT AND CEO, MARCH OF DIMES, ARLINGTON COUNTY
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
This year, Rahman became head of March of Dimes, a national charity founded in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat polio. Today, the 350-employee nonprofit focuses on healthy pregnancies and births.
Rahman became the organization’s interim president and CEO in August 2024, after the nonprofit announced Dr. Elizabeth Cherot was stepping down, taking over as its permanent leader in February. Previously, Rahman was March of Dimes’ senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
In 2023, the nonprofit awarded more than $5.3 million to research initiatives and trained more than 25,000 health care professionals on issues related to preterm birth and maternal health care.
Rahman has a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from the George Washington University School of Business. She serves on the McLean Community Center’s 50th anniversary committee.
WHAT PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT ME: I was a highly competitive soccer player my entire life [and] only stopped playing when I found out I was pregnant at the age of 34.
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