Betty Massey

Biography: Betty Massey Executive Director Mary Moody Northen Endowment Galveston, Texas Betty Massey works as the executive director of the Mary Moody Northern Endowment, a private foundation based in Galveston, Texas, and serving both Virginia and Texas. Among her responsibilities are the operations of two historic properties, the 1895 Moody family home in Galveston and Mountain Lake Lodge, a historic resort near Blacksburg, Virginia. Following the September 2008 landfall of Hurricane Ike, Massey, then chair of the Comprehensive Plan Committee for the City of Galveston, was appointed chair of the City’s Long-Term Recovery Committee. It was this 330 member citizens committee that developed Galveston’s “roadmap for recovery”. Work At the same time, she led the effort to establish, and served as the first chair of, the Galveston County Recovery Fund, a coalition of four private foundations, two United Ways, the City of Galveston, and Galveston County, formed for the purpose of soliciting and distributing private charitable resources post- Ike. Additionally, Massey served as chair of the Board of Commissioners of the Galveston Housing Authority in the years following the storm. Prior to joining the Endowment in September 2000, Massey served 11 years as executive director of Galveston Historical Foundation, the second largest locally-based preservation group in the United States. During her tenure, the organization was recognized with the Texas Governor’s award for Excellence in Historic Preservation, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Trustee Award for Organizational Excellence. The Foundation’s program of work included museum operations, educational programming, commercial redevelopment, and neighborhood revitalization. With three decades of involvement in the Galveston Island community, during the last few years Massey has held leadership positions in a variety of civic and business organi