Carol Gallo

Education: BA: Smith College, in Art History
Service Expertise: grantmaking, organizational systems & processes, and strategic planning
TCC Practice Area: Philanthropy

Carol Gallo, Senior Consultant, has broad experience in both the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, and specific expertise in grantmaking, strategic planning, and organizational systems and processes.

Since joining TCC Group in 1998, Gallo has worked on organizational/management assessment and strategic planning assignments for a diverse range of philanthropic clients such as The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Altman Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo, Waccamaw Community Foundation, and the Foundation for the Mid South, as well as nonprofit clients including Cambridge College, Gateway to Higher Education, Management Consulting Services, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and Theatreworks USA. In the last few years she has focused almost exclusively on managing a number of clients for which TCC Group provides a full range of administrative and grantmaking services. These include the Mary J. Hutchins Foundation, The Ohrstrom Foundation, the Panaphil and Uphill Foundations, the Mariposa Foundation, and the Keefe Bruyette and Woods Family Fund. For several years Gallo managed the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Community Foundations Initiative and the Freeman Foundation's Asian Immigrant and Refugee Economic and Education Opportunity Program. She has also worked on a range of other types of client assignments, including research, evaluation, governance, and retreat planning and facilitation. Gallo served as Director of Finance and Administration of the firm for several years, so she brings a wealth of knowledge of and hands-on experience with financial and human resources issues to her client engagements.

Prior to joining the firm, Gallo was the Business Manager at a New York City consulting firm specializing in fundraising for nonprofit organizations. Earlier she worked in the fiscal sponsorship program of the Tides Foundation in San Francisco (now the Tides Center), and at JCDecaux USA's San Francisco and New York offices. She had an early introduction to the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, spending the first five years of her career at The New-York Historical Society and the Charles H. Revson Foundation, both in New York City.

Gallo currently serves on the Steering Committee for the National Network of Consultants to Grantmakers and as the co-chair of its Programs and Services Task Force. She has served on advisory boards to several nonprofits, and for two years served as the Secretary of the Board of the Artists Community Federal Credit Union. An avid singer, she served for eight years on the Board of the New Amsterdam Singers, including three as President.

Gallo graduated cum laude from Smith College with a BA in Art History and did graduate work in Education at the University of San Francisco.

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