Anne-Marie Toccket

Anne Marie Toccket has worked across the globe with social enterprises, nonprofit organizations and individuals to build strong, lasting, effective institutions. She is executive director of the Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh, a growing family foundation using diverse philanthropic tools to support solutions to social, environmental and economic challenges around the world. Before joining the Foundation in 2019, Anne Marie was a sought-after consultant and facilitator. Anne Marie has won several awards, including the Sprout Fund Legacy Award, Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 Under 40 award and the Iris Marion Young Award.

Anne Marie began her career in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with AmeriCorps*VISTA in a Women’s Small Business Administration office at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. She then moved to rural Peru, where she worked for an indigenous-led NGO in building market access for Quechua women artisans. That experience led her to co-found Awamaki, an NGO that readies indigenous women artisans for small business ownership. She remains an active and enthusiastic participant in the organization’s strategic planning and fundraising.

Anne Marie founded Procopia, a consultancy serving nonprofits and foundations, in 2012 after her work in Latin America showed that she had a skill for facilitating consensus among diverse ideas, values and objectives and across languages, cultures and worldviews. Anne Marie was a journalism major in college, which taught her intensive listening skills paired with an ability to ask questions that cut to the root of the issue at hand.

Anne Marie worked for a decade at the Philanthropy Forum at the Graduate School of Public and International Aairs (GSPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh, where she supported an eort to democratize and document the impact of community-level philanthropy. She is an adjunct professor at GSPIA. She serves on several boards.

Anne Marie has a master’s degree in public policy from GSPIA and three bachelor’s degrees in Spanish, international relations, and journalism from Penn State. In her free time, you can find Anne Marie riding her bike, walking in Highland Park, exploring Pittsburgh’s lesser-trodden city steps, and spending time with her partner, Eric Davis.