Moore with students the Fund helps at Xia Chong Elementary School, June 2005

Moore thanks teacher after a women's literacy
class in a village near the county seat of
Luodian County, April 2009

Biography

Before the life-changing moment when she read about the plight of peasants in rural China in the New York Times in 1995, Gwen Moore was at the height of her career as a management consultant at Accenture (formerly called Andersen Consulting). For over 20 years, Moore had helped clients to design and implement strategies to make their organizations more effective.

In 1997, Moore resigned her partnership at Accenture to "follow her heart," as she says, and attend Harvard Divinity School. Moore holds degrees from the Harvard Divinity School (M.Div., 2000) and from the University of Massachusetts (M.Ed., research and statistics, 1976; MBA, business policy, 1978). Further, Gwen is the author of many published articles and a book, Prescription for the Future: How the Technology Revolution is Changing the Pulse of Global Health Care (Santa Monica: Knowledge Exchange, 1996).

Moore moved to Maine in 2001, where she devotes much of her time to managing the Fund. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Androscoggin Bank and chairs the Bank's MainStreet Foundation. Periodically, she undertakes selected consulting projects with leaders of nonprofit organizations and small businesses to help them create and implement strategies for growth and change.