Ms. Betsy Aldrich Garland has been Minister of Administration at Beneficent since 1998. She has also served as Director of the Volunteer Center of Rhode Island (1975-1995), and the Mission Enabler of the Rhode Island United Methodist Association (1996-2005).

Ms. Garland is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard Divinity School. She previously served as national Vice President and a board member of Church Women United, and also on the national board of the Association for Volunteer Administration. She currently serves on the governing board of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches and also conducts her own business, Lay Spirit Consulting Services. She is a registered nurse and the mother of two grown children, and has three grand children.