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Barbara Hindley
Strategic Communications
Writer, Editor |
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 As
Creative Director for Elements, Barbara Hindley works with Boston
area foundations and nonprofit organizations to evaluate their communications
programs and develop short-term and long-term communications strategies.
Over the last fifteen years, she has developed a deep understanding
of the Greater Boston community and become a premier communications
consultant for the city's charitable foundations. The materials
she has produced are among the most admired and respected in the
country, and have won sixteen awards from the national Council on
Foundations competition for excellence in communications.
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A major client is the Boston Foundation, one of the country's largest
and most progressive community foundations, with an endowment of
more than five hundred million dollars and annual grants totaling
more than fifty million dollars. |
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 On
a consulting basis, she has helped the Foundation to shape its image
and messages through two major leadership transitions over the course
of seventeen years. She also edits all of the Foundation's award-winning
publications and oversees multimedia programming and print and television
advertising. |
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Following
the merger of BankBoston and Fleet, Barbara helped to create a new
identity for FleetBoston Financial Foundation and the Charitable
Asset Division of Fleet. For the international consulting firm Education
Development Center, she evaluated the organization's communications
needs and then developed the job description and screened all candidates
for its first Director of Communications. Additional clients have
included the Hyams Foundation, the Greeley Foundation, American
Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay, Associated Grantmakers, Boston Schoolyard
Initiative, Boston University, Boston Women's Fund, Oxfam America
and WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Barbara was
also founder and Executive Director of a Boston theatre company
called The Muse. With grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, four of her
dramatized anthologies of American women’s writing were produced
by the company and adapted for National Public Radio. An original
play was also produced at the 16th Street Playhouse in New York
City. In recent years, she has written screenplays, several of which
have won national awards. |
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In 1982, she co-founded Communicators for Nuclear Disarmament, a collaborative of hundreds of Boston-area communications professionals. With grants from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and local foundations, the group provided pro bono work to nonprofit organizations educating the public about the arms race and created a model that was replicated throughout the country. |
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