
About Carey Pickard
Carey Pickard has served the nonprofit community for more than 30 years, working with a wide range of organizations across the sectors of conservation and environment, history and culture, visual and performing arts, education, human services, and neighborhood revitalization.
Carey served as director of the Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia for more than 12 years. Under his leadership, the Museum grew exponentially. Carey then joined the Compass Group, a national fundraising consulting firm, where he served as a Vice President for over 19 years.
In addition to his senior staff positions, Carey’s volunteer and trustee roles underscore his nonprofit leadership. He is a board member of the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative, and serves on the board of advisors for the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, and for the Henry Green Center at the Georgia Museum of Art.
He has previously served as a panelist for the Georgia Council for the Arts and past chair of the Arts Roundtable of Macon. He completed board tenures for the Booker T. Washington Center, Cannonball House and Museum, Cherry Blossom Festival, Center for Racial Understanding, Douglass Theatre, Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries, Georgia Equality, Historic Macon Foundation, Macon Arts Alliance, Macon-Bibb County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Macon-Bibb County Urban Development Authority, Macon Council on World Affairs, Macon Symphony Orchestra, Museum of Arts and Sciences (board chair), NewTown Macon, Regional Youth Development Center, and the Rotary Club of Macon.
Carey has held advisory board positions for the American Federation for the Arts Directors Forum and served as a delegate to the White House Conference on Travel and Tourism. Carey earned a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College and graduated from the Getty Museum Management Institute at Berkeley. In 2024, he received The Visionary Award from the James Wimberly Institute.


Clients Served
Alice Ferguson Foundation
Ave Maria Foundation
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
College of the Atlantic
College Park Aviation Museum
Contemporary American Theater Festival
Community Foundation for Northern Virginia
Crossroads of the American Revolution
Earthjustice
Friends of Acadia
Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters
Gettysburg Foundation
Give Kids the World
Goodwin House Foundation
Happy Retreat
Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park
International Folk Art Market
Inova Health Foundation
Los Alamos Historical Society
Mesa Verde Foundation
Middle East Institute
Mount Rushmore Society
National Marrow Donor Program
National Park Conservation Association
National Park Foundation
National Park Trust
National Theatre
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Natural Resource Council for Maine
Oatlands Historic House and Gardens
Otis Redding Foundation
Paul Robeson Home of Princeton
Rio Grande School
Santa Fe Prep
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Teton Science Schools
The Nature Conservancy--AZ
The Nature Conservancy--CT
The Nature Conservancy--Maine
The Nature Conservancy—Missouri
The Nature Conservancy—VA
The Nature Conservancy—WY
United World College
University of Delaware
University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
Wendell Gilley Museum
Woodland School
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company