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Donna L. Wiley

Senior Executive Vice President and Managing Director

Core Expertise

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience in non-profit management and philanthropic consulting, Donna Wiley provides counsel to educational, cultural, and healthcare institutions. She brings to her client work an awareness of the distinct qualities of each institution and of the common characteristics that define best practice in philanthropic management.

Recent Accomplishments

Donna has been a member of the Giving USA Editorial Review Committee since 2000, and has served as executive editor of the GG+A Quarterly Review. She is also a director of the Clowes Fund, Inc., a family foundation that provides support to education, the arts and social service organizations. Her broad interest in issues of governance, management and charitable tax law that affect non-profit institutions informs her work on behalf of GG+A clients.

Career Snapshot

Before joining GG+A in 1999, Donna filled various administrative roles at Bryn Mawr College. During her thirteen-year tenure as Bryn Mawr’s chief advancement officer and secretary of the college, where she supervised a staff of 34, she was instrumental in the planning and implementation of the highly successful Campaign for Bryn Mawr, which surpassed its initial goal of $75 million, reaching $92 million in 1993. She also supervised public relations for the College and provided administrative support for the Board of Trustees.

She has also served as deputy director for external affairs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where she supervised marketing, membership and development; as associate director of medical development at the University of Pennsylvania; and as program assistant at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation in New York.

Donna holds a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University, a master’s degree from City College of New York and her doctorate in the history of art from Bryn Mawr College. She also spent one year of baccalaureate study at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

Clients

  • Albright College
  • Amherst College
  • Arcadia University
  • Beloit College
  • Brandeis University
  • Bucknell University
  • University of California System
  • University of California, Los Angeles, The Anderson School of Management
  • Carleton College
  • The University of Chicago
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation
  • Children's Memorial Foundation (Chicago)
  • The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
  • Columbia University Graduate School of Business
  • Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
  • Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
  • Duke University
  • Ethical Culture Fieldston School
  • Georgetown University
  • Haverford College
  • Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • Horace Mann School
  • The Hotchkiss School
  • University of Houston
  • Howard Hospital Foundation
  • University of Iowa College of Medicine
  • Iowa State University Foundation
  • The Jewish Museum
  • Kentucky State University
  • Knox College
  • Lake Forest College
  • The Loomis Chaffee School
  • The University of Maryland School of Law
  • McGill University
  • Missouri Botanical Garden
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • National Museum of American History
  • The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  • University of New Hampshire
  • University of Notre Dame
  • PENN Medicine
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
  • The Pennsylvania State University
  • The Pennsylvania State University Hershey Medical Center
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Phillips Academy
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Pittsburgh Medical and Health Sciences Foundation
  • University of Rochester
  • Rush University Medical Center
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • The Shipley School
  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum
  • University of Southern California
  • St. John’s Mercy Foundation
  • Stanford University Medical Center
  • Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
  • Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Contact

Phone: 312.372.4040

View Past Webinars

  • Planned Giving: A Practical Approach for the Frontline Fundraiser

    Presented by Donna L. Wiley, Jane Rae Bradford

    December 2, 2010

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