More About Maggie

I believe everyone has God-given gifts and talents and capable of finding lifelong success.  Yet, after decades of spending trillions of dollars to eliminate poverty, a staggering 83% of people born into generational poverty remain trapped in the crisis of poverty their entire lives.  Clearly the “War on Poverty” has failed.  And while we cannot change government programs targeted to “help the poor,” at a local level we can focus our charitable help on providing genuine opportunities for our neighbors-in-need to succeed. This is the mission of Charity Reimagined.

Maggie was raised in Sandpoint, Idaho. She graduated from the University of Idaho with a BS in Accounting. She and her husband, Marc, have lived in Hayden Lake for 33 years. They have two wonderful sons and two delightful grandbabies, Lola and Levi.

Maggie’s professional work specializes in resolving debtor/creditor disputes throughout the northwest. Her work includes forensic accounting and expert witness services for civil and criminal matters. She has volunteered for a number of organizations including serving on the steering committee to bring the Union Gospel Mission Center for Women and Children to Kootenai County. She currently manages a low-income housing nonprofit. She has learned through her work that the opposite of poverty is not financial wealth. And she has learned a great deal working with the poor just how important mutual relationship is.

Maggie is passionate about the work of Charity Reimagined, a non-profit dedicated to educating, gathering data, and networking benevolence organizations serving low-income citizens in Kootenai County in effort to change well-intentioned charity from methods that erode dignity and foster dependency to methods that promote self-worth and capacity.