Rebecca Rothey

Rebecca Rothey, CFRE, CAP®, AEP® has held multiple leadership roles in charitable gift planning positions, serving since 2016 as Vice President of Development and Senior Philanthropic Advisor at the Greater Washington Community Foundation. Previously she was a director of gift planning at The Johns Hopkins University and Medicine and director of planned and principal gifts at Catholic Charities of Baltimore. She began her gift planning career at the American Red Cross of Central Maryland as a manager of major and planned gifts. It was her three years, from 2012-15, as director of major and planned to give at the Baltimore Community Foundation that sparked her passion for the role community foundations play in helping donors give back to their communities and her understanding of the nuances of professional advisors’ roles in philanthropy.

Rebecca is a member of the editorial advisory board of Planned Giving Today and has written for Bloomberg Tax. She has served on the board of the Baltimore Estate Planning Council and is a past president of the Chesapeake Planned Giving Council.