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Beth Grupp has been raising money and serving as an organizational expert for more than three decades. She founded Beth Grupp Associates in 1996 and works nationally and internationally providing best-in-class expertise on growing bottom-line revenue and increasing organizational effectiveness. Beth is recognized as an innovative leader in fundraising strategy, organizational capacity building, and board development.
Before opening her own firm, Beth was the finance director for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in both his 1988 and 1994 races, and some of the programs she has run have broken national records. She went on to work in the races of Sen. Barbara Boxer, Sen. John Kerry, and Sen. Ron Wyden, among others. Her clients range from those with portfolios of $100,000 to portfolios of $100 million. Beth has a particular commitment to encouraging others to becoming more adept at fundraising skills through training and executive coaching. Over the years, she has trained hundreds of people at all levels of skill and experience.
Beth was educated at Cornell University in New York where she received a bachelor of arts in an independent major entitled “The Use and Abuse of Power.” She is also the recipient of the 1984 Cornell Peace Studies Award. Beth was raised in New York City and has lived in Washington, DC, since 1985.