Synergos Staff
Ann Tartre

Ann Tartre is Director of the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership, a network of community foundations on both sides of the border and major donor foundations that aims to improve quality of life in the region. Ms. Tartre joined Synergos in January 2005 as Deputy Director, Strengthening Bridging Organizations Program, helping to oversee Synergos work to promote philanthropy globally, particularly community philanthropy.

Prior to joining Synergos, Ms. Tartre worked for nine years with the Maine Community Foundation (MCF), where she served as the Director of Donor and Program Services, and before that as a Senior Program Officer. In her donor services work, she was responsible for creating and implementing a system of donor service that included educational briefings, site visits, and helping donors be more strategic about their philanthropy. Her program work included developing and monitoring MCF's multi-year organizational capacity building grant program, as well as several other grant programs related to conservation, and community development.

Ms. Tartre also has experience managing grant programs internationally. In 1999, she worked as a grants officer for the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe based in Szentendre, Hungary. She was responsible for managing all aspects of three grant programs focused on environmental NGOs in the 15 Central and Eastern European countries.

Her involvement with the NGO and philanthropic sector also includes board service with the Maine Association of Nonprofits, where she chaired the program committee as well as a strategic planning process for the organization, and to the Maine Philanthropy Center, where she served on the governance, program and executive committees.

Ms. Tartre's experience outside of philanthropy includes working for US Senator George J. Mitchell in Washington, DC where she was responsible for advising the Senator on environmental legislation, and serving as a research associate for the Quebec Labrador Foundation. Ms. Tartre speaks English and French and is proficient in Spanish, and holds a BA in International Relations and French from Tufts University, and a Masters of Environmental Studies from Yale University.