Mary Reinders is a Senior Research Consultant, serving mission-driven organizations in the fields of healthcare, higher education, arts/culture, religion, and human services. In her work, Mary has conducted a wide variety of studies to advance the missions of organizations through resource development, strategic planning, collaboration, enterprise development, and program expansion.

 

Project examples include attitudinal research, benchmarking studies, wealth screening, trend research, community asset mapping, compensation studies, organizational assessment, environmental scans, and program evaluation. Mary’s role in projects is comprehensive; involving senior oversight in the initial discovery phase, design of the service strategy, project management, data collection, analysis, report writing, and presentation of findings with recommendations.

 

Over the last several years, Mary has provided senior research consultation to the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy on its annual benchmarking survey. Recent work also includes a comprehensive donor study with CentraCare Health Foundation in St. Cloud, Minnesota; program evaluations for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Boys and Girls Clubs, and First Stage Children’s Theater; and an omnibus attitudinal survey for a collaboration of marriage and family support agencies across the country.

 

Mary holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin.