Mary Phillips

Mary Phillips is a founding partner and President of GMA Foundations, where she has worked with foundations for over thirty years.  She leads the firm’s consulting services and specializes in philanthropic program design and assessment, governance, trustee education, planning for transitions, retreat facilitation, foundation start-up services, and foundation management. Mary serves as philanthropic advisor to numerous foundations, families, and individuals.

Mary is a founding member and current Chair of the Steering Committee of the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers; a learning community for consultants dedicated to increasing and strengthening philanthropy.  She is a Past Chair of Associated Grant Makers, a New England-wide, regional association of grantmakers, where she served as an officer for 11 years.  She is active in the non-profit community and has presented, facilitated and written for the Council on Foundations, Exponent Philanthropy and the National Center for Family Philanthropy among other local and national philanthropic associations and donor service organizations.