Meet the Team
Susan Magill
Robin Ganzert (Pew Economic Policy Group)
Tracy A. Mack (Culture, Civic Initiatives, Information Initiatives, Health and Human Services and the Northeast Land Trust Consortium)
Thomas S. Curren (Northeast Land Trust Consortium)
Ash McNeely (West Coast liaison for individuals, families and foundations)
Robert Stix (Pew Environment Group, Health and Human Services Policy program, and the Pew Center on the States)
Susan Magill•
Managing Director, Philanthropic Services and Government Relations
Email: smagill@pewtrusts.org
Susan Magill manages Pew’s Philanthropic Services and Government Relations Department. She oversees the institution’s relationships with other foundations, corporations and individual philanthropists for the purpose of building charitable partnerships with Pew’s work. In addition, she ensures that Pew’s wide range of nonpartisan policy work is effectively and accurately communicated to policy makers and counsels the institution on nonprofit sector issues being considered at the state and federal levels that could impact Pew’s work.
Prior to joining Pew in 2006, Susan served as the Chief of Staff for United States Senator John Warner (R-VA) for 20 years. In 1996, she served as executive director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Previously, she headed the Washington office of Virginia Governor John Dalton and worked for former Congressman Caldwell Butler.
Named by Washingtonian magazine as one of the city’s most powerful women, Susan was twice appointed by Virginia governors to the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary, her alma mater. Susan was the second woman elected to chair the college’s governing body. She was appointed to the State Council on Higher Education in 2006, and also continues to serve on the advisory board of Mount Vernon. In 2008, Susan received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Excellence in Virginia Government Awards presented by the Virginia Commonwealth University.
Robin Ganzert•
Deputy Director, Philanthropic Services
Email: rganzert@pewtrusts.org
Robin Ganzert is the Deputy Director of Philanthropic Services at the Pew Charitable Trusts. In her role, she provides leadership and management for the team of advisors for strategic high-impact philanthropy. The Pew Philanthropic Services team is responsible for cultivating relationships with foundations, the private sector, and high-net-worth individuals for philanthropic investment opportunities. Prior to joining Pew, Robin served as the Senior Vice President and National Director of Philanthropic Strategies with Wachovia Wealth Management, a division of Wachovia Bank, N.A. Her responsibilities included providing executive leadership for the firm’s non-profit business development efforts in wealth management and securities channels; promotion of nonprofit sector trends and best practices in charitable gift planning strategies; and consulting with affluent families regarding philanthropic strategy and effectiveness. She formerly served as the National Director of the Wachovia Center for Planned Giving, a group she founded to serve charitable institutions in a holistic approach to planned giving, including investment management, administration and consulting services. She developed a Wachovia White Paper Series on best practices in planned giving and nonprofit management and created annual Wachovia Planned Giving Summits—national forums which provided networking and professional development for trustees and nonprofit leaders.
Robin frequently presents at international and national industry forums on family philanthropy, best governance practices for nonprofits, and charitable giving strategies for affluent individuals and private wealth advisors. Her international speaking engagements include U.S. State Department events in Ireland and Russia, and industry events in Sweden and Singapore. She has served on the faculty and presents frequently at the National Conferences on Planned Giving, the National Conference on Philanthropic Planning, and regional planned giving and estate planning groups. She has provided philanthropic strategy training to financial advisors and wealth managers at UBS Private Wealth Management, UBS Institutional Consultants, Wachovia Wealth Management, and Wachovia Securities. She has been published in the Journal of Financial Planning, the Philanthropy Journal and Advancing Philanthropy, and quoted in major national and international media.
Robin received her B.S. and M.B.A. from Wake Forest University and her doctorate from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She holds five professional financial management and accounting certifications, including Accredited Investment Fiduciary and Certified in Management Accounting. She has been recognized with the Wake Forest Babcock Leadership Award and the North Carolina Women in Business Award. She also serves as a National Trustee with the ALS Association based in Calabasas, California.
Tracy A. Mack•
Senior Officer, Philanthropic Services
Email: tmack@pewtrusts.org
Tracy Mack is a senior officer with the Philanthropic Services team of The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she serves individuals, families and foundations wishing to leverage their philanthropy through a partnership with Pew. Tracy joined Pew in 2004 and helped launch its new offerings and services for philanthropists, foundations and corporations. She provides advice and counsel on how to form collaborative charitable initiatives, with a particular focus on health and human services, youth and civic engagement, religion and the arts. She leads the Northeast Land Trust Consortium, a large-scale partnership between Pew, multiple land conservation organizations and more than 100 families to conserve land across the northeastern United States.
An attorney by training, Tracy brings 15 years of experience advising high net worth individuals and corporations. She has spoken at national and regional forums on how to provide holistic planning services to affluent families seeking to build a legacy.
Tracy earned her undergraduate degree from Miami University in Ohio, where she graduated with honors, and a master’s in journalism and a law degree from The Ohio State University.
Thomas S. Curren•
Director, Northeast Land Trust Consortium
Email: tcurren@pewtrusts.org
Thomas S. Curren has served since 2006 as director of the Northeast Land Trust Consortium of The Pew Charitable Trusts, assisting in the protection of more than 380,000 acres in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York.
Prior to joining Pew, Tom was president of the Lakes Region Conservation Trust in Meredith, New Hampshire from 1994 to 2006, where he worked to protect more than 14,000 acres of conservation land and raised nearly $30 million dollars in contributions. He served as vice president for marketing and development at the Crotched Mountain Foundation, director of development at the New Hampton School, and director of development at the Spaulding Youth Center. In addition, Tom has owned and operated a family dairy business, written three town histories, and co-authored two books with his wife, Kathy Neustadt. Tom has served as trustee of the Crotched Mountain Foundation, the Carol di Maiti Stuart Foundation, and the Lakes Region Conservation Trust, and as an incorporator of the Lakes Region Charitable Foundation. He has also served two terms as selectman of the town of Bridgewater, New Hampshire.
Tom attended the University of Massachusetts and Goddard College, and also trained at Dartmouth College in community social service work and maternal and child health as part of a rural mental health outreach program.
Ash McNeely•
Senior Officer, Philanthropic Services
Email: amcneely@pewtrusts.org
Ash McNeely is a senior officer with the Philanthropic Services team at The Pew Charitable Trusts, which she joined in 2008. She serves as Pew’s West Coast liaison for individuals, families and foundations wishing to leverage and amplify their philanthropy through partnerships with Pew.
Prior to joining Pew, Ash was vice president of donor engagement at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, managing grantmaking for 1,200 donor-advised funds, supporting organizations and scholarships. At the Peninsula Community Foundation, she led the strategy and execution of advised fund grantmaking, business development and communications for seven years. Ash also worked for a decade in Bay Area performing arts organizations, including TheatreWorks, the California Shakespeare Festival and the Center for the Arts at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens. She has spoken at numerous national forums such as the Council on Foundations’ Family Foundation Conference, Council on Foundations’ Community Foundation Conference, the Institute for Private Investors, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Junior League, and Credit Suisse Private Wealth Management Conference. She has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, Harvard Business School and Colorado College.
Ash sits on the boards of Open Square Foundation and Opportunity Fund, and is an active volunteer with Horizons Foundation, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Vassar College and TheatreWorks. She received an MBA in nonprofit management from Golden Gate University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Vassar with a bachelor’s in English and women’s studies.
Robert Stix•
Officer, Philanthropic Services
Email: bstix@pewtrusts.org
Robert Stix is an officer with the Philanthropic Services team of The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he serves individuals, families and foundations wishing to leverage their philanthropy through a partnership with Pew. Bob focuses primarily on developing and stewarding philanthropic partnerships with the Pew Environment Group, Pew Health Group, and the Pew Center on the States. He came to Pew in January 2008 when it merged with the National Environmental Trust (NET), where he was the director of foundation relations from 2004 to 2008.
Prior to joining NET, Bob was the director of operations and development for the Government Accountability Project, a national public interest law firm that promotes whistleblower protection. Previously, he was a program officer at the Ruth Mott Fund, directing the foundation’s programs on peace and national security and the environment. During the 1980s, he worked for several organizations focusing on human rights in Guatemala and U.S. policy toward Central America.
Bob has conducted numerous seminars on foundation fundraising, and has written a guide for donors on philanthropic partnerships with grassroots groups in Guatemala. He majored in philosophy at Reed College, while also helping to establish a community night school and conducting field work on orangutans in Borneo and Japanese macaques in Oregon.
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