Meg Woodside Is a Trustee of the Woodside Foundation, a Private Family Foundation Focusing

Meg Woodside is a Trustee of The Woodside Foundation, a private family foundation focusing primarily on program development, outreach, and advocacy in the areas of family financial security and asset building in Maryland. She holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work (‘07), where she serves on the Dean’s Board of Advisors and is the Founding Chair of the school’s Financial Social Work Initiative.

Prior to her work in financial empowerment, Ms. Woodside earned a BA in French and Latin from Dickinson College (’82) and an MBA in Finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (’84). She enjoyed a 20 year career in direct client relationship and business-line management roles in commercial and private banking, finance, and corporate community relations with firms in Maryland including Maryland National Bank, NationsBank, and Comcast. She is a graduate of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s LEADERship program, and has been recognized as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women and one of Baltimore’s Top 50 Business Women.

Ms. Woodside currently serves on several non-profit boards and coalitions related to her work in advancing financial education and economic security programs and outcomes in Maryland. She founded and chairs the Financial Literacy and Asset Building funders group at the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, where she served on the board for nine years. She is a board and Executive Committee member of the Maryland Council on Economic Education and a member of the Maryland Coalition for Financial Literacy. She serves on the Advisory Committee for the Maryland CASH Campaign, a statewide network of organizations that promote financial stability for low-to-moderate income families. She was appointed to the Maryland State Department of Education’s Financial Literacy Education Advisory Council, which was charged with developing and implementing personal financial literacy curriculum standards in all K-12 public schools in Maryland. Additionally, she was appointed to the Maryland Financial Education and Capability Commission. She continues to serve as a strategic advisor to Maryland Public Television’s multi-year campaign to promote financial education and access to trusted community-based financial resources.

She and her husband reside in the Harbor East community in downtown Baltimore, Maryland and Jupiter, Florida.