Carol is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and accomplished donor communications pro with a strong track record of amplifying diverse voices and helping to secure significant gifts for nonprofits and foundations. 

In a career spanning health sciences, political advocacy, and philanthropy, her consistent focus has been on creating more just communities. She’s a gifted storyteller — evident in her creation of donor cases for support that attracted seven-figure gifts, high-profile giving day events, successful fundraising campaigns, and in thoughtful stewardship and communications planning and execution.

A skilled writer and project manager, Carol has produced a wide range of donor communications, from direct mail appeals and newsletters to video stories and annual reports. She enabled the publication of numerous feature media stories and op-eds in targeted outlets for Connecticut’s groundbreaking marriage equality campaign.

Carol has earned the sole international qualification specifically designed for fundraising, the CFRE, which signifies a fundamental level of competence and a commitment to fundraising standards and ethics. A lifelong learner, she completed the certificate program in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing and Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. 

Carol graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College, where she was a two-time All-American in softball and an Academic All-American. She later was inducted into the Ithaca College Sports Hall of Fame.  She earned master’s degrees from Bowling Green State University and the University of Hartford. 

Carol is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Nonprofit Technology Network, the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, and Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Nonprofit Consultants Network. As a business member of 1% for the Planet, Carol donated one percent of all revenue earned through Just Giving Communications to environmental causes.

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Storytelling, her book group, her obsession with the New York Times, her quest to find the best empanada in Hartford, and mentoring a teenager that she (literally) looked up to.