Marcia Sharp is the principal of Millennium Communications Group, a strategic communications practice serving the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

She works with Boards of Directors and executive staff in nonprofit associations and foundations on issues of strategy, organizational change, and the uses of communications to strengthen and grow organizations. A skilled facilitator and strategist, she most often works with clients in times of leadership transition, or significant change in organizational vision and ambition.

As the platform for this consulting work, Sharp has built and managed two nationally regarded consulting firms. From this perspective she brings her client partners both her entrepreneurial skills and vision, and her understanding of how to create organizational capacity that translates to greater value for their customers.

Foundations, nonprofits, and membership associations she has worked with include the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the Council of Better Business Bureaus,  the Wise Giving Alliance, Jewish Funders Network, the National Conference for Community and Justice, Dunkin’Brands, Inc.,  Northern California Grantmakers, the Rockefeller  Foundation, New Ventures in Philanthropy, the Council on Foundations, and the Association of Small Foundations.

Sharp’s articles and commentaries on the challenges of leading nonprofits and foundations in today’s environment have appeared in Foundation News and Commentary, the Chronicle of Philanthropy and other publications, and she is a frequent presenter and workshop leader at both regional and national philanthropic meetings.

A graduate of Harvard University, Sharp sits on the Council of the Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, and is a director of  Development  Alternatives, Inc., an international development  consulting firm. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Effective Philanthropy. She was a founding member of the National Association of Women Business Owners, and was for many years a trustee of Goucher College, where she chaired the College's Strategic Planning Task Force, and was a member of its Presidential Search Committee.  Locally, she serves on the boards of the Lawrence History Center and the Andover Village Improvement Society.