Vice President

Beth joined Metropolitan Group as a vice president in 2008 working from San Francisco. Social change has been woven into the fabric of Beth’s life, so it is no surprise that she has made a career out of pursuing a better world and a brighter future. She brings to MG more than 16 years of experience successfully implementing a broad range of fundraising strategy and campaigns, corporate sponsorship and cause-related marketing, membership and mass appeal fundraising, and nonprofit management.

Beth has helped raise more than $20 million for various issues and causes. Her fundraising work has helped reframe the public conversation about breast cancer from a conversation about treatment to one about prevention, and illuminated the connection between the environment and breast cancer. Her work has helped support the passage of several precedent-setting public health bills that are national models in health monitoring and safety.

Beth’s current and recent clients at MG include Americans for the Arts Action Fund, California School Health Centers Association, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Idaho State Historical Society, San Gabriel River Discovery Center, TransFair USA and the West Hollywood Library Fund.

Prior to joining MG, Beth served as director of development for VolunteerMatch, where she assessed the fundraising potential of the organization’s user base and was instrumental in launching a $10 million capital growth investment campaign. She has also served as director of development at The Breast Cancer Fund, working to build and diversify the organization's fundraising strategy, and as associate director with Earth Island Institute's Bluewater Network project, managing its transition from a fiscally sponsored project to an independent nonprofit. 

In addition to her experience in fundraising, Beth also brings to MG strategic communication expertise. She was formerly director of marketing at Working Assets, one of the nation's pioneering socially responsible businesses, and worked in audience development at thread, inc., a boutique branding and strategic communications agency. Her work on a campaign for Breast Cancer Fund and LUNA Bar was recognized with a Cause Marketing Halo Award.
 
Beth holds a bachelor’s degree in creative and technical writing. She serves on the Board of Advisors for LUNAFEST, a national traveling festival of short films by, for and about women. She draws inspiration from the rich multitude of visual and performing arts activities in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys cycling, yoga, cooking, the outdoors, spending weekends at her friends' organic farm, and “torturing” a small group of women at her weekly boot camp class.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're still alive, it isn't. —Richard Bach