Ann W. Marchetti Bio

Ann W. Marchetti, RD
Principal 

For the past twenty-two years, Ann Marchetti has held leadership roles in several successful nonprofit agencies towards a singular goal-- to improve the health and wellbeing of children, youth, and families. Drawing upon her unique combination of public policy, business, and creative skills, Ann has assisted these nonprofits in optimizing their business models to build organizational capacity and develop sustainable programs. Ann was recently awarded the 2008 Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding Service to Children and Youth by the National Child Labor Committee. This body remarked. “Ann has been at the forefront of action and voice to improve the health, education, well-being, and futures of millions of children.” 

Ann first realized the power of coalition building in the early 1990s after establishing two school health centers in Illinois. Recognizing that these centers had no sustainable funding, she helped organize other directors to found the Illinois Coalition for School Health Centers in 1996. As the first staff director for the coalition, Ann led successful pushes to get school health centers included as a line item in the state budget and to improve the state grant formula for the centers she helped found. As a registered lobbyist from 1993-1995, she organized students to lobby the state legislature, persuaded school leaders in Illinois to renovate existing centers, designed space to accommodate them in new schools, and enticed foundations and other private organizations to lend their support to the coalition of over 300 members. Most recently, Ann served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for the Cambridge, MA based National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), which specializes in improving the quality of care for children through advocacy and assistance to help prevent and combat childhood obesity; promote practices for dealing with chronic childhood illnesses such as asthma, hyperactivity and epilepsy; and encourages early screening programs for infants. Since 2005, Ann provided leadership in building the organization’s marketing, finance, information technology, human resources, and board governance capacity.

Prior to joining NICHQ, Ann served as Program Director for the Southern Institute on Children and Families (SICF), based in Columbia, SC. There she also served as the Deputy Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Covering Kids/Covering Kids and Families National Initiative and advocated on behalf of lower income children and families via policy recommendations, education, building of partnerships and coalitions, and working to remove barriers to stable employment. Immediately prior, she served as Associate Director of the Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition (IMCHC). While at IMCHC, Ann fought to reduce infant mortality, obtain substance abuse treatment for pregnant women, improve the funding for school health centers, and built a statewide coalition of more than 1400 members to ensure that all Illinois children were provided with health coverage. Ann earned her MS degree from Radford University.

Ann founded AW Marchetti Consulting in 2008. Her firm is dedicated to providing executive leadership and oversight and to empowering a new generation of leaders in the nonprofit sector to develop effective systems for capacity development and program delivery. Clients to date include: Covering Kids and Families Indiana, South Bend, IN; the DuPage County Health Department, Wheaton, IL; Health Choice Network, Doral, FL; Independent Living Systems, Miami, FL; Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition/Chicago Area Immunization Campaign, Chicago, IL; Omni Youth Services, Buffalo Grove, IL; ShoreBank, Chicago, IL; The Children’s Clinic, Oak Park, IL; and Wellness Pointe, Longview TX. Ann brings the same infectious energy and determination that she used to transform several organizations from within to her consulting work for others. She is poised to provide your organization with the creative and sustainable solutions it needs to succeed in today’s complex social and business environment.