Frances Freyberg English

Frances Freyberg recently joined Mission Hospice as Director of Development. She is responsible for reaching out to current donors as well as cultivating new donors, grant opportunities and corporate funding sources.

She explained that the job also includes increasing community awareness of the organization through effective communications and special events such as Light Up a Life and the Auxiliary’s Oktoberfest and Bridge Day.

Freyberg comes to Mission Hospice from the corporate world and a variety of volunteer non-profit responsibilities. She currently volunteers as the public relations lead for Nuru International, a new organization pioneering holistic, sustainable solutions to end extreme poverty in partnership with the poor. As a biology student at Brown University, she and other students started the Brown chapter of Project HEALTH to engage students in community health issues.

She spent 2008 as a travel writer and photographer completing an around the world trip to more than 40 countries across five continents. That was after working in various corporate communications programs at Sun Microsystems.