Ray Joyce

Ray Joyce brings more than 35 years of non-profit management and fundraising experience to BUSSW along with a marketing and sales background in the private sector. He has spent a good portion of his career to date in public television fundraising and managing a service for visually impaired audiences developed at Greater Blue Hill Educational Foundation (GBH, formerly WGBH), running day-to-day operations for the station’s new media department and later heading up marketing, development, and educational services at WGBY. Joyce also served as executive director for the grassroots church reform organization “Voice of the Faithful.” Prior to joining the School of Theology (STH), he was the director of development at Lazarus House Ministries, a gospel-based human services organization, where he led their first-ever capital campaign, surpassing their $5 million goal. In total, Joyce has raised more than $100 million for four different non-profits, including Boston University.

Earlier in his career, Joyce worked in marketing and sales at Wang Laboratories, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica working with a women’s cooperative, and later volunteered for Habitat for Humanity in the US and abroad. Also, a graduate of Merrimack College, he was a member of their Alumni Executive Board. He lives in Acton with his wife Michele who is a BUSSW alumna. They have three grown children, all of whom are also Terriers. Joyce is honored to collaborate with SSW alumni and friends in securing major gifts in support of the school’s mission which is now more important than ever.