Gretchen Willison
About Gretchen Willison
Gretchen Willison has many years’ experience in leadership positions in civic and community organizations. Most notably, her successful fund development campaigns have benefited many important social, religious and health organizations.
Currently Gretchen serves on the Foundation Board of Trustees for Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, where she completed co-chairing a successful $210 million Power of Partnership Campaign. She also serves on the Development Committee for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and is a member of the Los Angeles Music Center Blue Ribbon.
Gretchen is the recipient of the Governor’s Volunteerism Award in Oregon and the Portland State University Presidential Citation for her leadership as President of the Portland State University Foundation. She and her husband Bruce received the Voices of Hope Award from the St. Joseph Center in Venice, California. In 2017 Gretchen received the Cardinal’s Award from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Nonprofit Service
- Campaign for Santa Terisita Neighborhood of Care – Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart, Steering Committee
- Inspiration Building Campaign – St. Genevieve Schools, Panorama City, Steering Committee
- Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Fund Development, Advisory Board for Construction
- Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums, Los Angeles Chapter, Board
- Cure Autism Now, Board
- Flintridge Sacred Heard Academy, Fund Development
- Children’s Burn Foundation, Grossman Burn Center, Board
- Los Angeles Metropolitan YMCA, Board
- Ketchum Downtown YMCA, Board
- Portland State University Foundation, Board
- Portland Opera Association, Board
- Oregon Health Sciences University, Marquam Hill Steering Committee
- Verdugo Hills Hospital, Dir. of Public Relations and Woman’s Council
- Crescenta-Canada YMCA, Board