Pickard Consulting helps non-profits grow and become stronger, more vibrant, worthy organizations by building their fundraising capacity.
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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.

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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