Martha L.P. Heassler

Communications, Development and Grants Professional

Martha L.P. Heassler has worked as a communications, development and grants professional on the West and East Coasts, serving in both consulting and staff capacities for a number of leading national and international institutions.

Now based in the historic seacoast community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Martha Heassler is seeking professional opportunities related to her various areas of experience and expertise. References and samples are made available upon request.

Martha’s early career featured marketing, public relations and fundraising responsibilities within the field of international relief and development, particularly as a staff member with World Vision in California within the height of the "Ethiopia Crisis” in the mid-1980s and then as a grants consultant working from Boston with World Vision’s domestic and international programs in the late 1980s.

Martha Heassler's more recent experience includes foundation relations and capital campaign responsibilities within two nationally-renowned institutions of higher education based in New England, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Gordon College. There, she played a key role in major grants awarded to these institutions by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The William Randolph Hearst Foundations, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Kresge Foundation, The Lilly Endowment, Inc., and The Henry Luce Foundation.

In the last few years, Martha has worked as part-time Grants Supervisor/Consultant with Beverly Bootstraps Community Services, a leading community service agency on Boston’s North Shore.

In addition, she has served as a media spokesperson and advocate on behalf of Feeding America, the Greater Boston Food Bank and the Open Door Food Pantry in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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Martha L.P. Heassler

Communications, Development and Grants Professional

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