Alicia Anne Philipp

Treasurer
President, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc.

For the past 26 years, Alicia Philipp has led the Foundation's grantmaking, fundraising and consultation to donors, other grantmakers, and nonprofit organizations. Under her leadership, the Foundation has grown from $7 million in 1977 to nearly $400 million, and has become one of the largest community foundations in the United States, and one of the first to establish a Center on Family Philanthropy within the foundation.  Philipp is a member of the advisory committee of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and serves as a board member of Central Atlanta Progress. She has previously served as a board member of the Council on Foundations, the Southeastern Council of Foundations, and Independent Sector. Her current leadership service includes: the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, the United Way Community Investment Committee, and the Council on Foundations Community Foundation Leadership Team.

Caroline D. Avery
President, Durfee Foundation
Carrie Avery is President of the Durfee Foundation, a family foundation that has been based in Los Angeles, California since its establishment in 1960. The Durfee Foundation makes grants in arts and culture, community development and education, mainly in the Los Angeles region. Carrie received her B.A. from Stanford University, her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a Georgetown University Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow. She serves on the Ethics & Practices Committee for the Council on Foundations; she also serves on the board of St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Oakland, which is recognized nationally for its service learning in the community. Carrie is on the Berkeley Law Alumni Association Board, and serves as an Advisor to the International Convention on Human Rights Research Project at the law school. Carrie chaired the Board of Directors of Northern California Grantmakers; she also founded and for several years chaired NCG's Family Philanthropy Exchange. She is a past co-chair of the board of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sally Bowles
Director, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
Former head of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Sally Bowles joined the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation's board of directors in September 2001. Ms. Bowles helped to establish and served as president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. She began her career as a member of the core working group that drafted the executive order to establish the Peace Corps and later served as assistant to its director. During a decade of service with the State of Connecticut, she served as its Medicaid Director, and as the commissioner overseeing AFDC, General Assistance, Food Stamps, and other income maintenance programs. Ms. Bowles subsequently became the executive director of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Committee for South African Development. Prior to joining the Tremaine Foundation, Ms. Bowles served as a consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation on its program to build international leadership concerning the global environment and sustainable development. She is a founding advisory committee member of the Council on Foundation’s Program on Family Philanthropy.

Nancy Brain
Executive Director, Sam L. Cohen Foundation
Nancy Brain is a trustee and Co-Director of the Frances Hollis Brain Foundation, a family foundation founded in Kentucky in 1993, and is the Executive Director of the Sam L. Cohen Foundation, serving southern Maine. The Frances Hollis Brain Foundation focuses on Kentucky, Maine, Georgia and Ohio, making grants in a wide range of areas such as human services, health, education, and religious programs.  Ms. Brain serves on several local and state civic organizations' boards, including: the Waynflete School of Portland, Maine; the Portland (Maine) Public Library and the Advisory Board of Maine Initiatives, a Maine foundation which supports grass roots organizations.  She is also a founding member and former trustee of the Maine Philanthropy Center.

Charles W. Collier
Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Harvard University
A nationally recognized expert on planned giving and family philanthropy, Charles W. Collier has been a speaker at many conferences, including the National Committee on Planned Giving, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and the Council on Foundations, and has written widely on the subjects of family wealth and charitable giving.  He has been published in Trusts & Estates, ACTEC Journal, Advancing Philanthropy, The Journal of Gift Planning, and Planned Giving Today. Collier is a senior fellow of The Philanthropic Initiative, Inc. and on the board of the Catalogue for Philanthropy and the Family Foundation Adviser newsletter. Over the past thirty years he has worked with hundreds of individuals and families to help them think through the questions addressed in his book, Wealth in Families, published by Harvard University in 2001.

Linda Franciscovich
Senior Vice President, US Trust Company of New York
As head of U.S. Trust’s Philanthropic Advisory Services, Linda Franciscovich oversees a group of professionals who advise individuals and families on philanthropic planning, grant making, governance and regulatory compliance issues. The Philanthropic Advisory Services Group also provides foundation services and advises family foundations and other not-for-profit organizations. Ms. Franciscovich represents U.S. Trust as the trustee of several private foundations.  Prior to joining U.S. Trust, she was a Trust and Estate Administration Attorney. Ms. Franciscovich has been a featured speaker at conferences of the Council on Foundations, The Philanthropy Roundtable, the Financial Women’s Association, the Investment Management Institute and the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers (NYRAG), where she is also a board member

William C. Graustein
Trustee, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
William C. Graustein is the lead trustee of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. In 1993, in response to an increase in the Memorial Fund’s assets, he oversaw its transition from a volunteer run operation to a professionally staffed, mission driven organization. Prior to that, he was a research scientist in Yale’s Department of Geology and Geophysics. He serves on the board of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy and chairs the board of Public Allies. Dr. Graustein co-founded and helps operate the Community Leadership Program to help develop and support values-based collaborative leadership in his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut.