Mary Phillips is a founding partner and President of GMA Foundations, where she has been working with individual donors, families and boards of trustees for over thirty years. She leads the firm’s consulting services and specializes in program design and assessment, planning for transitions, governance structure, trustee orientation, retreat planning and facilitation, foundation start-up services, foundation management, and executive coaching. Mary serves as philanthropic advisor to several family foundations.

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

Mary has a Masters of Science in Leadership and Organizational Change from Regis College, and is a cum laude graduate of Emerson College with a B.S. in Business and Organizational Communication.

She dedicates her spare time to enjoying her own family, including her daughter and twenty nieces and nephews, ranging in age from newborn to 33.