Anne joined Washburn McGoldrick in 2012 and has been a Principal of the firm since 2019.

Her work with clients has been focused on pre-campaign and ongoing campaign counsel, advancement staff and program assessments, campaign feasibility studies, one-on-one coaching for chief executives, chief advancement leaders and gift officers, and a variety of workshops for board members, senior leadership teams, volunteers, staff and academic leaders. Her clients have ranged from independent schools, to liberal arts colleges and complex universities.

Anne leans in on Washburn McGoldrick’s willingness to develop solutions that meet the client’s distinct needs, culture and campaign readiness. She has worked with clients to design custom Soundings studies to provide information for top-level institutional decision-making, as well as comprehensive constituent surveys and internal donor analyses to help advancement leaders and gift officers bring new focus to their efforts.

Anne has expanded Washburn McGoldrick’s independent school practice significantly, thanks to her ability to understand the needs and dynamics of boarding, day and single-sex schools. She counts Miss Porter’s School, Harvard-Westlake School, Kingswood Oxford School, Carlthorp School and Sequoyah School among her current and most recent clients.

With more than twenty years as a chief advancement officer, she is often called on to serve as an executive coach to senior advancement leaders, campus CEOs and gift officers. She has helped a school head imagine next steps for the advancement program as a long-time leader retired, assisted boards in developing their skills in engaging major donors, and helped chief advancement officers evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their teams and programs and re-deploy resources in times of financial constraint.

Anne also serves as a lead trainer for Intensives, the firm’s comprehensive program of training and professional development workshops for gift officers, volunteers and academic leaders. Her expertise was honed over two decades as an accomplished teacher for CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Anne served as chair or faculty member for over two dozen CASE conferences in the US and abroad, including the flagship Summer Institute in Educational Fund Raising and the CASE Europe Spring Institute in Educational Fund-Raising. She was one of the earliest recipients of the CASE Crystal Apple Award for teaching excellence.

Throughout her career Anne has served the advancement profession as a volunteer and trusted advisor as a member of CASE’s international Board of Trustees, chair of the Committee on the Profession, a member of the Philanthropy Commission and chair of CASE District II, the largest of the eight CASE North American regional districts.