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

 

Project examples include attitudinal research, fundraising performance studies, wealth screening, trend research, community asset research, compensation studies, enrollment projections, environmental scans, marketplace giving analyses, and program evaluation and development. 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 key findings with recommendations.

 

Over the last three years, Mary has provided senior research consultation to a consortium of healthcare foundations engaged in a groundbreaking fundraising performance benchmarking study. Recent work also includes a comprehensive donor study with CentraCare Health Foundation in St. Cloud, Minnesota; program evaluations for the Milwaukee Art Museum and First Stage Children’s Theater; marketplace analysis on behalf of the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits in Evanston, Illinois; and a trend study, environmental scan, and competitor analysis for the formation of an institute for adult education at Elmhurst College located in Illinois.

 

Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters Degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.