Rose Mary Fry is a native of Ohio and she received an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education from Ohio Dominican College and a graduate degree in Staff and Organizational Development from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She has thirty-five years of experience in the education, nonprofit, and for profit sectors. Since September, 2010, she has worked as a nonprofit consultant focusing on consulting, training, and executive search services for nonprofit organizations.
Previous Experience in the Nonprofit Sector
Her previous positions were as the founding Executive Director of the Texas Nonprofit Management Assistance Network, a 501(c)(3) organization that helped identify and meet the needs of Texas nonprofits through work with nonprofit resource centers and academic providers in Texas. Prior to the Network position, she was Executive Director of the Nonprofit Resource Center of Texas in San Antonio, the oldest resource center in the state.
Special Interests
Her special interests are organizational change, the intersection of the nonprofit and for profit worlds, and facilitation of small and large group meetings. She has been involved in the nonprofit sector as a volunteer for forty years with particular interest in the arts, education, and women and children’s issues. She was the first Licensed Consultant for the Standards for Excellence program in Texas.
Board and Community Service
Rose Mary has served on nonprofit Boards of Directors for years. Her past service includes Vice Chair and Executive Committee member of the San Antonio Public Library Foundation Board, Board President of Impact San Antonio, Board President of Texas Public Radio, Campaign Chair of Say Si’s Capital Campaign, Board President of the Hollow at Inwood Homeowners Association, Board member of ACCION Network and Chair of the National Alumni Advisory Board for Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio. She is a 2009 graduate of Class V of the Masters Leadership Program in San Antonio and Bexar County.