Managing PartnerDietel Partners
Tory manages portfolios for clients with both domestic and international interests. She works closely with the Dietel Partners team to define strategy, identify grantee and funding partners and provide assistance to grantees with their strategies, resource development and capacity building needs. Tory works closely with funding partners to help with field building in the areas of interest to her clients. She believes strongly in working towards better dynamics between the funding and grantseeking communities and takes a humanist approach to her work.
Prior to joining Dietel Partners, Tory had a 25 year career in nonprofit resource development, management and governance with a particular focus in education and health and human services. She was trained by BoardSource as a nonprofit governance consultant and was a principle of Turning Point Consulting, which focused on strategic planning and organizational capacity building in the nonprofit sector.
In addition to her career in the nonprofit sector, Tory was co-founder of RockHopp Partners, a company that developed materials for parents and children, which received the Teacher’s Choice Award and Parent’s Choice Award.
Tory received a heaping dose of volunteer genes from both of her parents. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Health Care Without Harm, the National Advisory Board of Wholesome Wave, the Development Committee of Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project in Uganda and Chairs the Advisory Board of 2B Design, an award-winning social enterprise based in Cambridge, MA and Lebanon.
Tory is a graduate of the Emma Willard School and the University of Vermont. She is the mother of two grown children and lives in Maine with her husband, loves the great outdoors, dancing, and travel – she has travelled to more than 30 countries. At heart, Tory is a networker and strives to inspire others to lead a life of purpose and to support solutions-minded colleagues.