About Me

Serving social causes since the sixties, Marie's experience in nonprofit, educational, and governmental administration provides a broad base of expertise available to the clientele of her firm, Development Services. Ms. Beichert is credentialed as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and is registered as Fundraising Counsel with the State of California and as a Qualified Grantswriter for the San Francisco Office of the Attorney General. She specializes in service to mission-driven community benefit organizations and has a special interest in prison reentry programming and prison advocacy. 



Marie has extensive experience in fund development consulting, grantswriting, donor database management, prospect ID, project management, and systems development for growing organizations. Her clients range from hospitals and universities to neighborhood groups. Her recent projects include Mandela MarketPlace, Insight Prison Project, Ashoka Youth Ventures, 7th Empire Media, American University of Armenia,  the MOMS reentry program of Volunteers of America Bay Area, and Alameda County Health Care Foundation. She recently participated in the successful conclusion of a $12.5 million capital campaign for Alta Bates Summit Medical Center’s Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center. She served as Director of Development for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and as Assistant Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. 



Following university work in Political Science and Theatre Arts at SUNY Fredonia, Ms. Beichert pursued certification in Nonprofit Administration and Law from UC Berkeley. She served as Assistant Director of the San Francisco Art Commission's Neighborhood Arts Program during the Moscone administration, where she administered five fledgling community cultural centers and the Scroungers's Center for Reusable Arts Parts (SCRAP). She has served on the Boards of the Kingston Office of Community Development, the Kingston/Ulster Economic Development Zone, Hudson Valley Sustainable Communities Network, and the Women's Studio Workshop. She is a Founder and Past President of the NorCal Chapter of the Grant Professionals Association.