Executive Director
Pam McDonald has more than 30 years of development and nonprofit management experience. Prior to becoming Executive Director of CONFR in 2004, Pam served as Executive Director of the NH Community Colleges Foundation; Regional Director of the National Kidney Foundation in New Hampshire; and as a development professional at Concord Hospital and Stanford University, where she served as Associate Director of Foundation Giving during Stanford’s $300 million “Campaign for Stanford.”
Pam is a graduate of Leadership New Hampshire and of Leadership Greater Concord and serves on the LGC Steering Committee. She is a Director and Past President of the Hopkinton Woman’s Club and was honored with the Muriel Lima Award for outstanding service to the Hopkinton Community. She is a Vestry Member and Lay Eucharistic Minister at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Dunbarton.
Pam graduated with a B.A. Degree in English from Stanford University and holds a Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from The Institute for Nonprofit Management, Department of Organization & Management at Antioch University New England. She also holds a New Hampshire real estate sales license. She is a member of Stanford Associates, which acknowledges exceptional volunteer leadership to Stanford University.
A fourth-generation Californian, Pam moved to New Hampshire in 1987 and lives in Hopkinton with her husband Christopher Closs. She has three children and five grandchildren and enjoys making pottery, gardening, writing, yoga, and snorkeling in warm waters.
