Melinda Marble

exec director, Fireman Charitable Foundation

Melinda Marble is the Executive Director of the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation. Formerly, she was a Senior Associate at TPI where she created the Boston Neighborhood Fellows Program. She also served as Vice President of Program for The Boston Foundation and Associate Director at the Lincoln Filene Center at Tufts University. Before moving to Boston, Melinda was a Program Executive for the San Francisco Foundation and she also chaired the Bay Area Foundations/Corporations Emergency Fund. Marble has drawn on her experience to develop training programs and material for donors and foundation staff. For the past three years, she had helped the Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts develop its "Insights" series on nonprofit management issues and has led sessions on nonprofit life cycles.