The Chartrand Foundation

March 27, 2014
The Chartrand Foundation was established by the Chartrand family in 2006. The Chartrand Foundation focuses on education because the family believes that accessing and acquiring a quality education is the most important step individuals can take toward achieving self-expression, personal freedom and financial independence. Read More

Hal Harvey

March 27, 2014
Hal Harvey is CEO at ClimateWorks Foundation. Together with Paul Brest he is co-author of Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy.  Read More

Tim Delaney

March 21, 2014
Tim Delaney – An attorney with extensive leadership experience in the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, Tim Delaney has served as the President & CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits since July 2008. Tim began his career at a large multi-state law firm, where he focused on litigation, media law, and government relations. Appointed in 1995 to be Arizona’s Read More

James Canales

March 12, 2014
Jim Canales was appointed president and trustee of the Barr Foundation in May 2014. Prior to joining Barr, he spent two decades in a variety of roles at The James Irvine Foundation in California, including president and chief executive officer from 2003 through 2014. Before working in philanthropy, Jim was a high school English teacher in San Francisco after earning Read More

Alicia Schuyler Oberman

March 3, 2014
Alicia Schuyler Oberman serves as the Foundation Director of the Jack Miller Family Foundation (for which she is also a Board member) and its related philanthropic fund, the Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund. As Foundation Director, Alicia directs all of the foundation’s programs and operations and serves as the foundation’s liaison to its non-profit partners and the community. Prior to Read More

Lauren Hasey Maher

March 3, 2014
Lauren Hasey Maher (@lhasey) previously served as program manager at the National Center for Family Philanthropy. In this role, she worked to provide families and next gen donors with timely tools and information to maximize the impact on their communities. Lauren has been a successful nonprofit professional for more than seven years and holds an MA in Philanthropy from Indiana University’s Center Read More

Sybil Hite

January 19, 2014
Sybil Hite was a Trustee and Vice President of The Hite Foundation, a small family foundation started by her husband in 1987. From 2006-2008, she served on Philanthropy New York’s Board of Directors and was a member of several networks and committees, including the Family Foundation Trustee Peer Network, the Increasing Diversity in Philanthropy Committee, and the Committee on Directors Read More

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

January 19, 2014
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is “driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family.” The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. Read More

T.R. Meighen Family Foundation

January 19, 2014
The T.R. Meighen Family Foundation is a private charitable foundation that was established by letters patent in April 1969 with a gift from the founder, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Meighen. The head office is located in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and the administrative office is in Toronto, Ontario. Over the past 41 years, the foundation has granted close to $20 million Read More

Stranahan Foundation

January 19, 2014
The Stranahan Foundation was created in 1944 by brothers Frank D. and Robert A. Stranahan, founders of the Champion Spark Plug Company in Toledo, Ohio.  Today, the Foundation is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of one third generation and eleven fourth generation family members, all descendants of Frank and Robert, as well as a non-family member whose expertise is especially Read More