About Us

Meet Principal Consultant Anne McCarten-Gibbs

Anne’s three decades of experience in the non-profit world include serving as an executive director, director of development, and consultant. She understands the demands facing nonprofit leaders. Anne has partnered with international NGOs, human rights advocates, and community nonprofits to craft the right strategy and communications to meet their fundraising goals. She has directly raised over $5.6 million in grants and over $2.6 million in direct mail individual gifts.* Her work has won two Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications from the Council on Foundations.

Anne McCarten Gibbs

Experience

As a fundraising coach, Anne has worked with over 120 fundraising professionals, helping them think through challenges and build effective and sustainable fundraising systems. Her coaching clients are diverse group of organizations pursuing a wide range of missions across the US and abroad.

She served as the Development Director for Meals on Wheels Diablo Region from 2010-2013. During her tenure, she increased individual giving by 44%, the number of gifts by 23% and average gift size by 17%. 

In the 2000s, Anne co-founded two organizations. Youth Philanthropy Worldwide (later called New Global Citizens) mobilized young people in the United States to help solve the world’s biggest problems. Anne served as its Executive Director for three years.

She also co-founded and led marketing for Hands On Gourmet, a culinary events company that continues to lead its market in the food-loving San Francisco Bay Area. Anne’s skill at communicating about complex issues was honed earlier in her career through work as a Policy Analyst at EdSource, and the Communications Officer at the Global Fund for Women. 

Anne is a member of the Development Executives Roundtable and the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Golden Gate Chapter. Anne has a master’s degree from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

* This doesn’t include fundraising by organizations she has advised on communications or coached on fundraising, as those are their accomplishments to claim.

Approach

In all our work, Global Good Communications commits to these values:

  • Listening. Fully understanding your situation, needs, and strengths. It’s not about having all the answers, it’s about listening, posing clarifying questions, and moving towards the answer together.
  • Respect: Taking an asset-based approach to communications about the communities you serve and building relationships with you, your donors and all your stakeholders that are grounded in dignity and respect.
  • Sustainability: Developing fundraising plans that fit available resources, especially staff time, and resisting the culture of overwork.
  • Continuous Learning. Pursuing wide-ranging opportunities to learn new skills, update our understanding of the fundraising landscape, and explore other social trends. Aiming to learn and improve from every client engagement.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Recognizing the importance of DEI to an organization’s ability to fulfill their missions. Valuing and learning from diverse voices and perspectives and aiming to incorporate them into our work.
  • Ethics: Striving to act with honesty and integrity in all our interactions and adhere to the Code of Ethical Standards of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
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Awards Anne has Won

Wilmer Shields Rich Awards for Excellence in Communications

Awarded by the Council on Foundations, 1999.

Gold Award, Global Fund for Women 1997-98 Annual Report

Silver Award, Global Fund for Women Newsletter

Make Mine a $Million Business Award

Hands On Gourmet, May 2006.

This award – presented by Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence and OPEN from American Express – was part of a national initiative dedicated to assisting women entrepreneurs. Anne and her co-founder, Molly Fuller, won in 2006, and Hands On Gourmet reached the $1 million revenue goal in 2007.

Fast 100

Hands On Gourmet was named 5th Fastest Growing Company in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times, 2008