Mary Craig Tennille – Vice President

Mary Craig Tennille

Vice President

With extensive experience in a variety of areas including database management, fundraising for annual and capital campaigns, and major event planning, Mary Craig Tennille oversees the Excalibur Advancement Services team while working closely with clients, developing strategies for success, and helping customers exceed their fundraising goals.

Prior to joining the Excalibur Advancement Services team, Mary Craig served as director of major donors and professional giving at The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County where she was responsible for cultivating major gifts and overseeing annual workplace campaigns throughout the community. She also served as the liaison to The Renaissance Society, The Arts Council’s top donor membership group. Additionally, she played a key role in The Arts Council’s Comprehensive Campaign for the Arts, a three-year, $27.7 million capital campaign and was an instrumental player in the comprehensive planning for the re-opening of the new arts center in downtown Winston-Salem.

Prior to joining The Arts Council, Mary Craig was development and information systems manager at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for over five years. In her role at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, she oversaw the organization’s 200,000-record database while playing a vital role in the $189 million capital campaign to reopen the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.

Before moving to San Francisco in January 2003, Mary Craig was the public relations and marketing assistant at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. A Winston-Salem native, she is a graduate of Wake Forest University, Salem Academy and The Summit School. An active community volunteer, she is a board member of the Arts Based Elementary School, Arts for Life, a member of the 2011 class of Leadership Winston-Salem and a member of Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s National Advisory Council. Since 2009, she has been a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Tanglewood Cup Steeplechase Committee, The Women’s Fund of Winston-Salem, and a founding member of the Advisory Council for BRAVO!, a young professionals group benefitting the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.