President, Children’s Wisconsin Foundation
Senior Vice President, Children’s Wisconsin

Meg Brzyski Nelson is President of Children’s Wisconsin Foundation and Senior Vice President for Children’s Wisconsin. Through both broad-based and very individualized methods, Meg and the Foundation team work to build brand awareness for Children’s Wisconsin as a cause; deepen volunteerism and advocacy; increase philanthropic revenue; and demonstrate gratitude to the community and grateful patient families.

With the Children’s Wisconsin Foundation, Meg successfully led Brighter Than Ever, a six-year engagement and philanthropy campaign effort for Children’s Wisconsin, the most ambitious and comprehensive in its history. Raising $308 million and completed in 2025, the campaign galvanized the community’s generosity, volunteerism and advocacy to fuel the Children’s Wisconsin mission, especially the work that commercial insurance and public payers do not fund: research that eradicates and changes the trajectory of diseases so children can lead healthy lives; programs that wrap around and empower kids and families to live full lives; and integrated mental and behavioral health care that gives kids and teens access to care when and where they need it most.

Prior to Children’s Wisconsin, Meg served as Associate Vice President of University Advancement for Marquette University, where she was part of leading large-scale fundraising efforts; donor cultivation and stewardship activities; and parent, donor and alumni outreach and communication functions.

Meg earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Marquette University. Currently, she serves as a volunteer and advocate for her alma mater.

She is associated with Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and YPO Gold, a national and international networking group of business leaders with at least 40 employees and $25 million in revenues. Meg is also a board member and chair of the education and learning committee for The Woodmark Group, is a not-for-profit organization whose members are premier children’s hospitals in the United States and Canada. In addition, Meg currently serves as an executive committee board member of Next Door, an early childhood development program serving Milwaukee’s central city and is former chair of the board of PEARLS for Teen Girls, an empowerment program targeting at-risk girls in Milwaukee.