40 Under Forty 2020: Tracy Baldelli
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Tracy Baldelli
- Title: Associate director of development
- Company: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Residence: Worcester
- Birthplace: Southborough
- College: Assumption University
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Tracy Baldelli has what can be an unenviable task of asking people for money. Fortunately for her, she’s doing it on behalf of WPI, which has been something of a fundraising machine in the past few years and a college whose STEM-focus seems to make it more and more relevant.
At WPI, Baldelli surpassed senior class gift campaign goals in all four years she ran the program and developed a five-year implementation plan for a culture of campus-wide philanthropy. Her focus isn’t just on WPI. She helps out just up Salisbury Street, too, at Assumption University, her alma mater. She’s an alumni ambassador and is a member of the President’s Council. From there, her involvement in a range of positions quickly starts to be too numerous to name. Among them: She’s a board member at the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester, where she helped raise more than $150,000 at its first-ever fundraising gala; a volunteer WPI campus advocate; a member of the Women in Development of Central Massachusetts; and the Young Professional Women’s Association of Worcester. That’s just today. In the past few years, she’s volunteered for UMass Medical School’s Winter Ball fundraiser and Habitat for Humanity.
Who would play you in the movie about your life? Julianne Moore
How do you like the pandemic's work-from-home life? While I sometimes enjoy being a hermit in this new normal, I miss the relationships I build in-person with alumni and parents.
What is your next goal? Own a home. Growing roots in this community is important to me.
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