“Here in the Berkshires, Fitzpatrick’s creative entrepreneurial savvy and philanthropic good karma touch a great deal. She leads six businesses, is chair of the newly formed Berkshire Creative Economy Council, and volunteers her time on numerous boards of not-for-profit institutions, among them the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), MASS MoCA Foundation, and the Berkshire Natural Resource Council.”
-Berkshire Business Quarterly contributor Gina Hyams on Berkshire Creative Economy Board Chair, Nancy Fitzpatrick
Berkshire Creative is proud to announce the featuring of our fearless board chair on the cover of this quarter’s BBQ! Here are some excerpts of what Nancy had to say about Berkshire Creative Economy:
I’d like something unpredictably wonderful to come out of it. I’d like to encourage the creative community in economic development. There are a lot of smart people who equate economic development with smokestacks and blight. We have to figure out something new that leverages the cultural richness, history, and natural beauty of the Berkshires. I believe that the heart of it will be innovative collaborations between several sectors, including government, not-for-profit, and private enterprises.
“‘I have managed to structure my work so that I don’t have to do very many things that I don’t enjoy doing,’ Fitzpatrick admits, ‘I’m surrounded by interesting people and I can spend half of my time working on notprofits, which are very strategic to my business. MASS MoCA is key to Porches, BSO is key to the Red Lion Inn, and Berkshire Creative Economy Council combines everything. I get to participate in so many interesting meeting which everybody is trying to create a miracle on a shoestring.’”
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