As a PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST, CONSULTANT, and community organizer she has worked to develop a ‘collaborative culture’ within MWG to include communities in documentary and media planning. From women miners seeking job justice to environmentally stressed urban neighborhoods. During an intense period of racial tension in Cincinnati in the early 2000s she worked with the Affrilachian Poets, African American churches, schools and advocacy organizations to bring about Indaba: Three Days of Coal Black Voices.
She served as the Principal Investigator and Executive Producer of the National Science Foundation funded multi-platform documentary THE GENDER CHIP PROJECT (directed by Helen DeMichiel) in 2004 and in 2006 for which she designed and implemented a national civic engagement campaign impacting over 250 science institutions and girl serving organizations.
Donohue is also a fund development professional who researches, consults, and writes grants for non-profit organizations, artists, and mediamakers. She has raised funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, state arts and humanities councils, private and corporate foundations, and state agencies.