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Executive Director, New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits
Mary Ellen assumed the leadership role as the Executive Director for NHCN in June 2005 and brought to the position more than 15 years of nonprofit leadership and management experience. In the past, Mary Ellen served as Executive Director for Familystrength, a statewide nonprofit providing a range of behavioral health home-based services for children and families and before this position directed The HUB Family Resource Center of Strafford County which provides a variety of family support programs. In addition Mary Ellen's experience includes employment with Seacoast Mental Health Center as a grant writer and program manager, and as a consultant to nonprofits for strategic planning and organizational management. In addition she was an adjunct professor of nonprofit grant writing at the Thompson School at UNH. In 2001 Mary Ellen was awarded the Douglass Eldridge Leadership Award from the Greater Seacoast United Way.
Mary Ellen holds a Bachelors Degree in Journalism and Psychology from UNH and a Masters Degree in Organizational Management from New England College. She resides in Strafford with her husband, and enjoys time with her grown children, gardening, and kayaking.
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