Caroline Marshall

Caroline Marshall joined WolfBrown in 1992 to assist the Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund with its Writers Awards program, a groundbreaking effort to engage new audiences for literature by inviting writers to collaborate with community organizations. Since then she has worked with numerous other funders on strategic planning or assessments of their grant making impact, including the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. When clients need documents that capture the breadth and nuance of discussions on complex issues, WolfBrown often taps Caroline’s writing skills. Recent examples include Museum as a Catalyst for Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Beginning a Conversation, for the Museum Loan Network, and Envisioning Convergence: Cultural Conservation, Environmental Stewardship, and Sustainable Livelihoods for the Fund for Folk Culture.

Caroline began her career as a prize-winning reporter and columnist for a small daily newspaper in Minnesota before she joined the staff of the Northwest Area Foundation of St. Paul. She left foundation work to spend 15 years in the field as a poet-in-residence working in a range of school, touring, publishing, and community-based programs, and subsequently, as director of an audience development project launched by the NEA’s Literature program, which included producing a radio show for NPR. A Vassar graduate, Caroline has co-edited (with Alan Cheuse) two short story anthologies, The Sound of Writing and Listening to Ourselves, and a volume of her own poetry entitled Fugitive Grace.