Donna Dalton

April 5, 2023
Donna Dalton is principal of Syringa Consulting where she focuses on supporting transformational change in the philanthropic sector. Prior to launching Syringa Consulting, she was the Executive Director with Mortenson Family Foundation for 13 years. While leading the Foundation, she helped shape and iterate the work of the Foundation to center community and advance equity. Her decade of service to Read More

Katie Hughes

April 3, 2023
Katie Hughes is Executive Director of Girls Build and is passionate about girls exploring the world of building. From hammering to taking stuff apart, she wants girls to learn to be fearless. With 10 years of teaching building summer camps under her belt, this carpenter hopes every little girl gets to fall in love with swinging a hammer. Read More

Sensible Philanthropy Support Systems

April 3, 2023
Our mission: Helping to make philanthropy a family affair. At Sensible Philanthropy Support Systems we design and implement grant management systems for lean and small-staffed family foundations by integrating the Salesforce and Google Workspace platforms. Our intuitive online system supports and fosters Grant Lifecycle Management, Relationship Management, and Internal/External Collaboration. Read More

Jessie Krafft

March 30, 2023
Jessie began her tenure with CAF America in 2011 and serves as the Senior Vice President of External Affairs for CAF America and CAF Canada and is on the Management Committee of the CAF American Donor Fund. She is a leading expert in international grantmaking from the U.S. and Canada as well as in local country laws on foreign funding. Read More

Ashley Barrett

March 29, 2023
Ashley Barrett works with the trustees of the Godley Family Foundation to identify and support innovative, scalable and equitable solutions to critical challenges in the areas of global health, climate action and gender equality, primarily in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout her career as a grantmaker, consultant and fundraiser, she has dedicated herself to linking innovative ideas to the Read More

Karl Mill

March 27, 2023
Prior to founding Mill Law Center, Karl Mill was a partner at Adler & Colvin, a boutique law firm serving non-profits and their donors. Karl continues to advise a broad range of non-profit organizations, including everything from the most innovative start-ups to some of the largest, most established foundations and charities around the country. Karl’s philosophy is to apply his Read More

Gretchen Schmidt, PhD

March 23, 2023
Gretchen Schmidt is a national leader in higher education transformation, focusing on issues of guided pathways and rural student success at NCII. Before joining NCII in 2020, Gretchen led the design and implementation of the American Association of Community Colleges Pathways Project 1.0 and 2.0 with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Through that work she helped develop Read More

Dr. Ben Stafford

March 23, 2023
Ben Stafford was born in Port Arthur Texas to Pat and Jack Stafford. As one of five sons in a working-class family of American Indian descent, his parents emphasized the critical importance of education. Ben started classes at Lamar Institute of Technology in the summer of 1977. He completed an Associate of Science Degree in Industrial Engineering in 1981, a Read More