Episcopal Press and News

Marci Wolin Murphy named interim UTO Coordinator

Episcopal News Service. March 26, 2009 [032609-03]

ENS staff

Marci Wolin Murphy, formerly grants coordinator for the United Thank Offering (UTO), a grantmaking program of the Episcopal Church, has been named interim UTO coordinator as of April 15, announced Antoinette Daniels, director of the church's partnerships center.

Murphy's previous position of grants coordinator has been reconfigured into the interim coordinator position, said Daniels. "Working closely with the partnerships center director and the UTO [governing] Committee, [Murphy] will be responsible for organizing and monitoring UTO grants during the [three-year] period in which the Executive Council has requested that an overall study of UTO be undertaken," said Daniels in an announcement.

The Executive Council governs the church between triennial General Conventions. ENS' story about the review is here.

Murphy has been working at the church's New York office since last September. She was previously a consultant at Siemens Corp., where she assessed workflow and procedures for U.S. grantmaking and customized a database to track the organization's philanthropic activity. She also has experience with the Goldman Sachs Foundation and the foundation arm of Fidelity Investments.

The United Thank Offering, which was founded in 1889, invites donations as part of an expression of thankfulness to God. In 2008, $2.4 million was awarded in national and international grants to diocesan and other ministries that address compelling human needs, with special attention to women and children.