Susan Donahue has extensive experience in the non-profit social entrepreneur space helping organizations with strategic growth, governance, board building, branding and marketing.
Susan has had the privilege of chairing a number of national boards: Health Leads, an organization working at the intersection of poverty and health care, addressing the social determinants of health; Beyond Conflict, an international organization that helps societies find peaceful resolutions to international conflicts; and the Talking Information Center for the Visually Handicapped, a national radio reading service.
In Boston Susan was a long time board member of Boston Medical Center, New England’s largest safety net hospital. BMC provides exceptional care without exception, serving the needs of the area’s low income, uninsured and homeless residents. She is an Emeritus Trustee and co-chaired their most recent capital campaign. Susan is an Honorary Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston after chairing multiple committees during her time as trustee. She has also served on the boards of Boston Children’s Chorus and the Research Institute for Learning Development. Susan sits on a number of advisory boards including United Way, Home for Little Wanderers, Eye to Eye and EMPath. A proponent of education, she has been involved with an array of educational programs and was a member of the woman’s grant making Hestia Fund. Susan has also founded three thriving local non-profit organizations.
Before shifting her focus to the non-profit sector, she was a marketing executive for BankBoston, Stop & Shop Companies and Mobil Oil Corporation, a first at that time. She holds a BA from Skidmore College, where she was the Davison Forman Foundation scholar, and a CSS from Harvard University, where she was the Derek Bok scholar of her class. Living near Boston with her husband, she has three grown children, a growing cadre of grandchildren, and an ever-changing menagerie of horses, sheep and dogs.
