Hello!
I’m a former consultant based in Downeast Maine. I’ve been lucky to work with an array of outstanding organizations to build capacity, engage new audiences, and bring their existing supporters closer. This site exists to showcase that work: sharing an organization’s story through compelling video, graphics, and written copy, and facilitating great meetings and retreats.
Since September 1, 2022, I’ve been the inaugural Director of the Cultural Alliance of Maine, a cultural start-up focused on advocacy, visibility, and peer-to-peer learning.
Portfolio of past work ↡
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Print & Digital Communication
Create proposals, newsletters, emails, and social media posts that get opened by your target audience.
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Video Production
Raise awareness and curiosity with a moving call to action that can spread organically.
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Podcasting
Tell a deeper story through interviews, testimonials, and thought leadership.
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Facilitation & Planning
Bring your team’s best ideas to the forefront and set a clear plan of action to realize them.
Work samples ↡
For Fundraising, Capital Campaigns, and Interim Executive/Development Director Services, visit garyfriedmann.com.
Why I’m here ↡
Born in Calais and raised in central Maine, I grew up in a forestry family and was lucky enough to spend every summer in Baxter State Park and Oak Bay, New Brunswick. Like many Maine kids, I couldn’t wait to leave my home state once I turned 18, but before long couldn’t wait to get back.
Along the way I studied art at City College in New York City, managed a contemporary art & design gallery in Manhattan, helped install exhibitions in an 18th-century palace in Portugal, earned a masters degree in Arts Administration & Cultural Policy in London, managed conferences and events, developed corporate sponsorship strategies for an arts festival in Senegal, helped launch an NPR affiliate radio station in Berlin, Germany, and had two children of my own to make memories with at Baxter and Oak Bay.