Carey Bloomfield 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.

Before joining the firm, Carey served as the director of development for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 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.

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

– Orchard House, assistance to this unique museum, the historic home of writer Louisa May Alcott and her family, in building a sustainable fundraising program while meeting urgent capital and endowment needs

– 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

– 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