Brooke W. Mahoney

MAHONEY--Brooke W. Died September 7th, 2007. The board and staff of the Volunteer Consulting Group/ boardnetUSA (VCG) express their profound sorrow on the loss of their esteemed founder and executive director. Ms. Mahoney served as ED of VCG since its founding in 1969. A graduate of Sayville High School, Ms. Mahoney received her bachelors degree from Randolph-Macon Women's College before attending Stanford Business School and earning an MBA from Harvard. She was a pioneer in the field of nonprofit governance and led the creation of www.boardnetUSA.org a web platform for non profit boards and candidates to find one another. She had been a Director of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, the American Center for International Leadership, the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York, Brain Mapping Center at UCLA, Executive Women In Human Services, the Rauch Foundation. She also was a panelist with the National Endowment for the Arts, a member of the Economic Club of New York, published in the Harvard Business Review, chosen to be a Fellow at the Salzburg Institute, a member of the International Women's Forum, a Regional Finalist for a White House Fellowship and served on the Executive Council of the Harvard Business School. Ms. Mahoney was the daughter of the late Jesse Waring Mahoney, M.D. and Mary Watkins Reeves. Ms. Mahoney is survived by her husband Norman Berman, her stepchildren Alisa Berman and Jonathan Berman, stepgrandchildren Rachel and Jennefer Berman and William and Charles Slattery, her sister Lisa Reeves Mahoney M.D., her brothers Jesse Waring Mahoney, Jr. and Reeves Watkins Mahoney, Esq. and her nephews Rex Whitt Mahoney and Luke Reeves Mahoney. A memorial celebration is being planned for the late Fall.