678 Results for “community” in Team

Jean Whitney, Principal, has more than 30 years of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.  Her work with families, individuals and foundations has broadly focused on helping them to implement best practices in charitable giving.  This has included a range of services, from providing advice on grant making basics, strategy, governance and succession to researching nonprofit organizations and performing Read More

Sylvia Mei-ling Yee is Vice President of Programs at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, a family foundation in San Francisco that makes $30 million in grants annually. She played a key role in the selection and development of the Fund’s education equity, nonprofit leadership, gay and lesbian and immigrant rights programs. A community leader committed to social change, Read More

Kristy Teskey is Executive Director of the John M. Belk Endowment and a strong education champion. Over the past 22 years she has worked on vital issues across the education and workforce development continuum, ranging from early childhood development to postsecondary access and completion, with a concentration on community colleges and first- generation students. Kristy joined the Endowment in August Read More

In May 2014, Melinda Marble was appointed Director of Family Philanthropy at Pilot House Associates, the family office in which the Barr Foundation is located. She previously served as Deputy Director and Interim Executive Director of the Barr Foundation. Prior to joining Barr, Melinda served as the Executive Director of The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts. At Read More

Since 1992, Ira Hirschfield has worked to create a more just and compassionate society as President and a Trustee of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco, California. Ira leads the Fund’s work in four key program areas: supporting equal opportunities for immigrants to become active citizens; advancing full equality for gay and Read More

Lisa Graustein (she/her) is the Board Chair of the W.C. Graustein Memorial Fund, whose mission is to achieve equity in education by working with those affected and inspiring all to end racism and poverty. As such, Lisa is working to dismantle the systems of oppression that have traditionally existed within grant-making to create new forms of wealth redistribution and social justice. Lisa Read More

Jason Baron is the creator and portfolio manager for the Socially Innovative Investing (S2I) strategy in the investments group within U.S. Trust. Prior to joining U.S. Trust, Jason served as the group head for the community investing team at Lehman Brothers where he was responsible for the design and implementation of socially responsible and mission-oriented investment products. He began his Read More

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 (@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