Hillary Goodridge

Hillary Goodridge has been the Program Director of the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program since 1995. A board-appointed committee of the UUA, with funding provided by the UU Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, this year the UUFP will grant just over $1 million to UU denominational and social justice programs.
 
Prior to this position, Hillary served for ten years as Development Director at Haymarket People’s Fund, a progressive foundation making grants to social change organizations throughout New England. From 1982 – 1985 she worked in the Development Office of the UUA, she cut her teeth fundraising at the Harvard Campaign and before that enjoyed a short but lively career at Simon & Schuster book publishers in New York.
 
She attended Smith College and received her BA from Dartmouth College.
 
Hillary has done consulting and trainings in fundraising and grantmaking with a wide range of organizations, families and individuals. She has a deep passion for social and economic justice and organizational development. In 2001 she and her then-partner became plaintiffs in the lawsuit that won marriage equality in Massachusetts in 2004.