Alicia Anne Philipp

President, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

For the past 31 years, Alicia Philipp has led the Foundation's grantmaking, fundraising and collaboration with donors, nonprofits and community leaders. Under her leadership, the Foundation has grown from $7 million in 1977 to nearly $850 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. Ms. 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 Junior League of Atlanta Board and Chair of the Nonprofit Studies Program at Georgia State University.