Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation

August 15, 2023
The Director of Strategic Learning and Evaluation is a newly established position within The Davis Foundation. We seek a skilled and innovative Director to serve as the inaugural leader and shape the Foundation’s commitment to collective impact. By incorporating the principles of collective impact and leveraging recent breakthrough research findings in early education, early literacy, education, and economic mobility, the Read More

US Program Director – Zara’s Center

August 10, 2023
The Plutzik Goldwasser Family Foundation (PG Family Foundation) is seeking a US Program Director to oversee the US-based needs of a project in Zimbabwe for vulnerable youth. Zara’s Center is an after-school safe haven for orphaned and vulnerable children in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The Center provides daily meals, school fees, academic enrichment, computer coding instruction, medical care, agricultural training, recreation, and Read More
Blog | Voices from the Field

Indian American Philanthropy: A Tradition of Seeding Change and Inspiring Giving

August 10, 2023 | Sharmila Rao Thakkar
Indian Americans have a long history of philanthropy, and the tradition continues to thrive with the current and next generation. In this piece, Sharmila Rao Thakkar explores the various trends and motivations behind Indian American philanthropy—as well as share more about the first-ever India Giving Day that took place on March 2, 2023 and that will become a new annual Read More

Grants Manager/Executive Assistant

August 9, 2023
The Brinson Foundation is seeking to hire a highly qualified candidate with excellent communication, analytic, and administrative skills to fill a full-time Grants Manager/Executive Assistant position. Prior engagement with foundations, database management, or other relevant nonprofit experience is preferred, but not required. The candidate must have the ability to interact with a variety of external and internal audiences, including Foundation Read More

Executive Director

August 8, 2023
Reporting to, and working closely with, the Board, the Executive Director (“ED”) will be responsible and accountable for leading the overall strategic direction and management of the Foundation to achieve its vision, mission and objectives. Building on the Foundation’s 70-year legacy of impact, the ED will chart the path forward with an ambitious drive and vision for increased impact across Read More

Program Officer

August 8, 2023
The Program Officer is part of a program team that leads the selection process of candidates nominated for the Goldman Prize. Each Program Officer oversees the research of candidates from two regions of the world and produces written reports on finalists for presentation to an international Prize Jury, which meets each year to select the Prize winners. The Program Officer Read More
Events & Webinars | Peer Networks

Strategic Lifespan Peer Network: Insights from the Kendeda Fund

Every family foundation that has decided to sunset has a unique spend down journey. But every family foundation learns throughout that journey. The Kendeda Fund has committed to spending out the remainder of its assets and ending grantmaking operations by the end of 2023. Since their founder, Diana Blank, began her philanthropic journey nearly 30 years ago, Kendeda has worked Read More

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies

August 7, 2023
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies strives for a future in which the United States and Israel live up to their highest ideals and achieve more just and inclusive societies. In the U.S., we work to advance racial, gender and economic equity as well as to foster a more joyful and diverse Jewish community. In Israel, we work toward a Read More

David Brotherton

August 7, 2023
David Brotherton has worked with the Kendeda Fund since 2014, leading organization-wide communications and the Fund’s Gun Violence Prevention program. David is also president of Brotherton Strategies, where he provides communications services to a diverse mix of national foundations, global NGOs, local nonprofits, and mission-driven for-profit clients. Having spent more than a quarter century working at the intersection of message, Read More

Dena Kimball

August 7, 2023
Dena Kimball is Executive Director of the Kendeda Fund. She has dedicated her career to driving scalable, transformational change through social activism – with more than 25 years of experience accumulated while serving in nearly every role in the non-profit world. Dena’s early career includes executive roles at several high-impact organizations. Her ability to think creatively, rally people together, and Read More