A movement builder at heart, with more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications and nonprofit leadership roles, Betsy is energized by opportunities to harness the power of strategy to drive social impact. Through diverse career roles, she has built and led groundbreaking programs and high-performing teams — propelling movements and empowering changemakers.

Most recently, as PEAK Grantmaking’s first chief strategy officer, Betsy Reid drove PEAK’s strategy forward, helping to advance the organizational vision to transform philanthropy through equity-centered, values-driven grantmaking practices by empowering its membership community as change agents in leading the way. In this highly collaborative role, she ensured internal strategic alignment and helped strengthen organization culture, working across departments to provide executive guidance and feedback on the development and deployment of an integrated portfolio of programs, initiatives, partnerships, and campaigns to ensure all are mission-aligned, responsive to the needs of PEAK’s community, and designed to maximize impact on the broader field of philanthropy.

As PEAK’s senior communications director from 2019 to 2023, she guided the organization’s reach and influence strategies to members, the profession, and the larger field of philanthropy. Through a multi-faceted narrative, content, and marketing program, she led a high-performing team that drove progressive growth in membership, rising participation at both in-person and virtual events, record attendance at annual conferences, and dramatically increased online engagement and resource utilization.

From 2010 to 2019, she served as vice president, marketing and communications, at the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, empowering its thousand-member network through knowledge-sharing, thought leadership, and community-building initiatives. She also led Georgia’s annual Giving Tuesday campaign, GAgives, for its first seven years, which raised $28 million for the state’s nonprofits during that time (and continues to grow year over year.)

Prior career experiences include serving as education director at the Professional Photographers of America, founding executive director of the Stock Artists Alliance, and in roles as an advertising photography and video producer.

Betsy is an active pro-bono and community volunteer, having served on committees at United Philanthropy Forum, Independent Sector, the American Society of Association Executives, and the Tufts University Alumni Association; as a Taproot volunteer consulting on nonprofit fundraising projects; as a reading tutor with AARP’s Experience Corps; as a community advocate for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation; and as a former board member for Atlanta’s Theatré du Rêve. She earned her bachelor of arts from Tufts University, graduating summa cum laude, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.