MARTA E. WHITE

May 2010

Professionally, Marta E. White achieved many things during her time on Earth because she understood the value of Entrepreneurship. She started White and Associates, a management consulting firm that provided support to nonprofit organizations and foundations. 

Marta served as the Executive Director of the Chicago Initiative, a program designed to support new training and employment opportunities for youth and community revitalization efforts based on a comprehensive model of linking family, community, and economic development. She was also the Division Developer and Director of the Chicago Institute on urban poverty at Travelers and Immigrants Aid, which created a new division to build an institutional agenda with a focus on policy issues, community building and planning. In that capacity, she conducted social service research that would lead to new program development around critical urban poverty issues. 

As a Senior Program Officer for The Joyce Foundation, she provided organizational and programmatic analysis and review of grant requests, defined key policy issues and recommended changes in foundation guidelines. In addition Marta taught a graduate-level course at Loyola University of Chicago on nonprofit management for the philanthropy, public policy and community change certificate program. Marta's final position was with the ETA Creative Arts Foundation where she coordinated special events and fundraising.

Marta believed in enjoying life and tried to live it to the fullest. She enjoyed traveling, was an avid reader and loved to hang out with her friends. One of her passions was bid whist, and she enjoyed sending people to Boston as often as possible. She also enjoyed cooking and the pleasures of a well prepared meal. Marta changed from mortality to immortality on Tuesday May 18th 2010 at 11:50 a.m. She is now at peace.