Ernest Tollerson

August 24, 2021
Ernest Tollerson is a seasoned environmental policy maker, sustainability expert, non-profit executive and journalist with a distinguished record of volunteer leadership. Mr. Tollerson served as a trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) from 2004 to 2013 including a three year term as board chair; he also served as NCF’s Interim president and CEO from July 2014 until November 2015. Read More

Northern California Grantmakers

August 23, 2021
Northern California Grantmakers brings philanthropy together to build healthy, thriving and just communities. NCG is an association of foundations, nonprofit organizations, government, and business tackling the region’s most pressing social issues. Members pool resources, share information, and learn from each other, making our collective impact far greater than if we were going it alone. Read More

Eric Jones

August 17, 2021
Eric Jones is Senior Project Manager at GivingData, where he leads client implementations. Prior to GivingData, Eric worked in philanthropy as a program officer focused on environmental issues and in grants management. Read More

David Goldsmith

August 17, 2021
David Goldsmith is Senior Vice President of Strategy at GivingData and is the founder of New Philanthropy Media, a consultancy focused on digital strategy for foundations and nonprofits. Read More

Lymari Benitez

August 13, 2021
Lymari Benitez, Ph.D. joined Pace Center for Girls in June 2015.  As the Senior Director of Program Information and Impact, she uses information to support 22 communities in Florida and Georgia to help girls at high risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system to change their life trajectory.  Prior to joining PACE, she worked in evaluation at Tennessee’s Statewide System Read More

Yessica Cancel

August 13, 2021
Yessica Cancel, chief operating officer of Pace Center for Girls, has been involved in expanding Pace’s reach throughout Florida, adding four centers over the past two years and working to expand Pace beyond the state of Florida. She has been instrumental in launching an update to Pace’s organization-wide research-based behavior modification system creating a consistent approach that is able to Read More

Teddy Thompson

August 13, 2021
As the Chief Advancement Officer at Pace Center for Girls’, Teddy leads marketing and resource development strategies that enable the organization to support its programs and services for girls. He works in partnership with the President of Pace Center for Girls and organizational leadership to create and implement fundraising plans that advance the organization’s goals and strategic priorities. Prior to Read More

Mary Marx

August 13, 2021
Mary Marx is the President & CEO of the Pace Center for Girls and over the past decade has led the organization through an extensive period of growth. Since its founding in 1985, Pace’s direct service work has positively impacted the lives of more than 40,000 girls and over the past decade its work on impacting public systems and policies Read More

Rachel Leon

August 12, 2021
Rachel Leon has held leadership positions for more than 25 years, most recently as the Executive Director for more than a decade at the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), a network of hundreds of foundations within environmental philanthropy. During her tenure at EGA, she helped create a nationally recognized Environmental Fellows Program with Dr. Dorceta Taylor, now in its sixth year Read More

Carolyn Wall Sakata

August 11, 2021
Carolyn Wall Sakata is Chief of Staff of a newly formed family office that supports the work of the Baszucki Family Foundation. For the past 15 years, she has worked in philanthropy with family foundations at varying stages. Prior to her work with the Baszucki family, Carolyn served as Managing Director of Sunlight Giving, a family foundation created in 2014 Read More