Marta Drury lives in rural northern California where she has offered quiet space to non-profits for the last twelve years and managed 160 acres.
She is a full time socially responsible philanthropist and investor with an especial interest in women and children. She is the director of The Heart and Hand Fund which funds women's groups working for peace and equity in the Balkans. She has been an advisor to The Global Fund for Women and to IGLHRC and on the international panel of Astraea Foundation.
Since her first visit to The Women's Building in San Francisco in 1986, she has been an enthusiastic supporter--6 years on the board and years on various committees including the chair of the development committee, chair of the capital campaign and chair of the 25th anniversary gala. In 2005, she was nominated as one of the 1000 Women for Peace for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Marta founded the Heart and Hand Fund in 1999 after speaking to a friend at 2am in Pristina, Kosova who told her that the Serbian army was going door to door in their neighborhood and herding people onto boxcars.
