As Vice President of the UW Foundation, Martha A. Taylor has been a key player over thirty years in the growth of one of the most successful institutionally related foundations in the U.S. She co-founded the Foundation’s Women’s Philanthropy Council in 1988, the first women’s major gift council at a large coed university. She works in major gifts and planned giving, and the Madison geographic area.
Taylor is one of the national leaders of the modern women’s philanthropy movement. In 1991, she co-founded the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, now part of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. She has co-authored two books on women’s philanthropy.
Taylor is an active philanthropist and leader in nonprofits and church organizations. She is a charter member of A Fund for Women.
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