To Changing Our World, Mary Beth brings more than 25 years’ experience in helping nonprofit organizations design and build strategic fundraising plans, grow major gifts programs, develop fundraising capacity, and execute capital campaigns and other funding initiatives. She has provided fundraising advice to numerous and varied nonprofits ranging from universities and social service agencies to organizations focused on national and global health issues.  

Mary Beth is co-editor and a major contributor to Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy, published by Wiley and Sons. She has addressed both national and regional organizations as well as many nonprofit boards and development professionals on the topics of planned giving, donor relations and campaign management.  

Prior to joining Changing Our World, Mary Beth worked in the planned giving office at Boston College and subsequently served as Director of Planned Giving and Associate Vice President for Development and Alumnae Relations at Emmanuel College. She received a B.A. degree from Boston College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.