PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital has hired Marguerite M. “Peg” Brown, a veteran of public higher education fundraising in Rhode Island, as associate vice president for philanthropy, with an immediate focus of completing the hospital’s $22 million Onward Campaign.
Brown joins Women & Infants after a two-decade career in higher education, including roles as the University of Rhode Island’s director of corporate and foundation relations and, more recently, as vice president for development and college relations at Rhode Island College and executive director of the Rhode Island College Foundation.
At both institutions, she has been credited with sharply boosting fundraising, in part by creating a better infrastructure to support it.
Brown also has served as an instructor in the Certificate in Non-Profit Management and Philanthropic Leadership program at RIC. She was named the Association of Fundraising Professionals fundraiser of the year in 2006 and was recently appointed associate commissioner for research for the R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education’s state Office of Higher Education.
A native of upstate New York, Brown holds a certificate in financial planning from Bryant University, a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Connecticut, a master of public administration degree from URI, and a B.A. from Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pa.
She also holds a certificate from the Management Development Program at Harvard University and is a graduate of Leadership Rhode Island, Sigma Class. She has served as a board member of the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities for the past six years.
Women & Infants Hospital, a member of the Care New England system, is the primary teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics and the seventh-largest obstetrical service in the country, with more than 9,000 deliveries per year. For more information, visit www.WomenandInfants.org.
