Mary Mountcastle

Trustee, Z. Smith Reynolds, Mary Reynolds Babcock, and Triangle Community Foundations

Mary Mountcastle is a trustee of the Z. Smith Reynolds, Mary Reynolds Babcock and Triangle Community Foundations. She is Senior Fellow at Self-Help, a nonprofit community development lender that has made $5 billion in loans to over 55,000 low-wealth families across the U.S. She currently serves on the boards of the Neighborhood Funders Group, the National Center for Family Philanthropy, the North Carolina Network of Grantmakers and the Corporation for Enterprise Development. She previously was President of the Center for Responsible Lending, Vice President of Economic Development for MDC Inc, a nonprofit policy research center, and Director of the Social Investment Program for MetLife Insurance Co. She has also worked at various levels of government. In 1992, she received the Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking from the Council on Foundations. She holds a MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA from Williams College.