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J. Carey Bloomfield

Vice President and Managing Director

Core Expertise

Carey brings to clients a rich background in higher education, secondary schools and cultural nonprofits. Since joining GG+A in 2003, she has worked with a wide variety of cultural organizations, including symphonies and museums across the United States, as well as with a broad spectrum of colleges, universities and independent secondary schools in North America.

Recent Accomplishments

Selected GG+A client work includes:

  • Bryn Mawr College, strategic counsel on a $225 million campaign and preparation for the arrival of a new president in the post-campaign period
  • Dana Hall School, ongoing campaign counsel on the School’s largest campaign to date, a comprehensive initiative for capital, endowment, and annual programs
  • Georgetown University, strategic planning study team member to advise the University on appropriate goals and strategies for its first campaign of significantly more than $1 billion
  • Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, interim counsel to ensure smooth functioning of the development program during a period of staff turnover and transition
  • Providence College, counsel to the President and Advancement staff on strategies to strengthen the overall advancement program while preparing for an ambitious centennial anniversary campaign
  • Stratford Shakespeare Festival, development program review and strategic planning study to advance the vision of this pre-eminent classical theatre
  • Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, development program review and ongoing counsel as the College sets a new course under the leadership of a new Dean
  • The Winsor School, ongoing fundraising counsel to help build a full spectrum of increasingly successful development programs

Career Snapshot

Before joining the firm, Carey served as the director of development for the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), where she had oversight responsibility for all fundraising programs for the Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and Tanglewood. She also guided a comprehensive campaign that totaled $150 million in contributions by its completion in 2000, surpassing the original campaign goal by $20 million. Building on the campaign’s success, she then restructured the organization’s fundraising priorities, which helped to generate a 15 percent increase in annual support from individuals and a 50 percent increase in Trustee annual support.

Prior to her work with the BSO, she was named the first chief advancement officer at Smith College. There, she integrated the Alumnae Fund into the overall development program, and oversaw principal and major gifts, planned giving, corporate and foundation giving, donor relations, advancement operations and systems, and research. As a result of her close collaboration with the president and trustees to create a strategic plan for a $250 million large-scale campaign, annual gift receipts grew from $27 million to $46 million.

Carey also spent more than a decade at Harvard University, where she held several development positions at Harvard Business School, culminating in her appointment as assistant dean and chief of advancement, with responsibility for development, alumni relations, and communications.

Carey graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Rochester with a bachelor’s degree in French literature and studied French literature in the master’s program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Clients

  • American Committee for Weizmann Institute of Science
  • The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Bryn Mawr College
  • Bucknell University
  • Calvert School
  • The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation
  • Children's Memorial Foundation (Chicago)
  • The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
  • Columbia University Medical Center
  • Dalhousie University
  • Dana Hall School
  • Eisenhower Fellowships
  • Elon University
  • Emerson College
  • Emory University
  • Emory University School of Law
  • Florida West Coast Symphony
  • Fordham University
  • Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation
  • Georgetown University
  • Goucher College
  • Haverford College
  • Horace Mann School
  • The Hotchkiss School
  • The Jackson Laboratory
  • Louisiana State University E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration
  • Louisiana State University Foundation
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Mercersburg Academy
  • Miami University
  • Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Missouri State University System
  • The National Trust for Scotland
  • New World Symphony
  • Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart
  • Orchard House
  • The Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business
  • Providence College
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario
  • The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
  • The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • San Francisco Symphony
  • Shepherd University
  • The Shipley School
  • St. Paul's School, Maryland
  • Stratford Shakespeare Festival
  • The Summit Country Day School
  • The University of Georgia, Terry College of Business
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Vermont
  • Villanova University
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • The Winsor School
  • The World Federation of United Nations Association

Contact

Phone: 312.372.4040
Cell Phone: 617.547.2494

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