Director of Community Outreach
Mary Beth Harrington served as Executive Director of the Austin Public Library Foundation and Director of Agency Relations at the Volunteer Center of North Texas (VCNT) prior to joining TANO.
VCNT supports over 2000 nonprofit agencies in 17 North Texas counties providing volunteer management training, resources, assistance in recruiting volunteers as well as leadership and other nonprofit trainings.
Volunteer management is nothing new to Mary Beth. Before working at the Volunteer Center, she served as Volunteer Coordinator for the Dallas Public Library, where she was responsible for over 3500 volunteers at 23 locations.
An enthusiastic speaker, Mary Beth is an advocate for the nonprofit sector having spoken about issues facing our nonprofit community at Visions Women’s Expo, Texas Library Association Convention, Big Brother and Big Sister Regional Convention, Meals on Wheels Regional Convention, Governors Volunteer Leadership Conference, Public Broadcasting National Convention and the International Conference on Volunteer Administration Conference. In addition, she has been a visiting professor at SMU and UNT as well as a contributor to Volunteer Management Review, the Journal of Volunteer Administration and selected as a LeadershipPlenty trainer for the Points of Light Foundation.
Previous to her experience in volunteer management, Mary Beth spent the first ten years of her career in the public relations and advertising field where she promoted both national and local clients – everything from a building implosion to cinnamon rolls.