Marjorie Fine is a consultant to social justice organizations and grantmakers and is featured in many workshops and conferences on social justice philanthropy and fundraising.
Marjorie has written and delivered numerous fundraising workshops emphasizing major donor fundraising rooted in the arts of community organizing. Clients include Four Freedoms Fund, Haas Jr Marjorie Fine is a consultant to social justice organizations and grantmakers and is featured in many workshops and conferences on social justice philanthropy and oundation/Flexible Leadership Award, Anti Trafficking Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Appleseed Foundation, Welcome With Dignity, Arriba Worker Center, Equality Florida, and Hand in Hand.
With the Center for Community Change, she researched and published Untapped: How Community Organizers Can Develop and Deepen Relationships with Major Donors, a free downloadable manual for organizers and development directors. She also co-produced Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice. Inside Philanthropy recently interviewed her about fundraising during the Covid 19 epidemic.
Marjorie has over twenty years of experience leading grantmaking institutions. She served for over a decade (1993-2005) as Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, a national faith-based social justice grantmaker. Before her tenure at the Veatch Program, she was Executive Director of the North Star Fund, a public foundation serving the New York City progressive community.
She served on the board of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and currently serves on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and is chair of the board of the North Star Fund.
She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude graduate of SUNY Buffalo. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from Hunter College School of Social Work with a concentration in community organizing and administration.
Marjorie believes fundraisers are the unsung social justice heroes and often repeats the mantra, “fundraising is organizing.”