Marjorie Fine
Template:TOCnestleft Marjorie Fine is a consultant to social benefit organizations and grantmakers and is featured in many workshops and conferences on social justice philanthropy and fundraising.
Marjorie has written and delivered numerous fundraising workshops with an emphasis on major donor fundraising rooted in the art of community organizing. Current clients include Four Freedoms Fund, National People's Action, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Midwest Academy, ACE and Right to the City.
She partnered with Grantcraft to produce a guide for funders entitled Funding Community Organizing: Social Change through Civic Participation. With the Center for Community Change, she researched and published Untapped: How Community Organizers Can Develop and Deepen Relationships with Major Donors, a downloadable free manual for organizers and development directors in both English and Spanish. With them she also co-produced an award winning book published by Josey-Bass entitled Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice.
Marjorie has over twenty years of experience leading grantmaking institutions. She served for more than a decade (1993-2005) as Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, a national faith-based social justice grantmaker. Prior to her tenure at the Veatch Program, she was Executive Director of the North Star Fund, a public foundation serving the New York City progressive community. She has also spearheaded major donor campaigns for her synagogue and delivered winning fundraising pitches for several organizations. She serves on the board of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude graduate of SUNY Buffalo and holds a Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College School of Social Work with a concentration in community organizing and administration.
Marjorie believes fundraisers are the unsung heroes of social justice and often repeats the mantra, "fundraising is organizing".[1]
Democratic Lawyers Council
On April 12, 2010, Anne Hess and Craig Kaplan hosted an event entitled "An Evening for Election Integrity! - With Mark Ritchie, Minnesota's Secretary of State" at 214 East 18th St., New York City. Members of the host committee were: Al Appleton, Caron Atlas, Allison Barlow, Marjorie Fine, Frances Fox Piven, Anne Hess and Craig Kaplan, Allen Hunter and Linda Gordon, Riva Krut and Harris Gleckman, Ruth Katz, Sandra Levinson, Jaykumar Menon, Leah Margulies, Marion Nestle, Anita Nager, Miles Rapoport, Donna Schaper and Warren Goldstein, and Deborah Stern. The event was a fundraiser for Ritchie's upcoming 2010 re-election campaign as Minnesota's Secretary of State.[2]
RoadMap
Marjorie Fine is a consultant with RoadMap, a Freedom Road Socialist Organization affiliated consultancy group .[3]