Nancy Chan

Nancy Chan is a director at Arabella Advisors, where she advises clients on strategy development, project evaluation, and implementation. Nancy serves as the program officer for the hope & grace fund, a project of the New Venture Fund in partnership with the global women’s skincare brand philosophy, Inc. Through her work with hope & grace, she developed a set of recommendations to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in grant-making practice, available for download at equityinphilanthropy.org, and published a recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, “Eliminating Implicit Bias in Grantmaking” to highlight this work. In addition to grant making, Nancy currently manages evaluation on behalf of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to assess the impact of their Elevating and Celebrating Effective Teaching and Teachers (ECET2) program. Nancy also volunteers on the steering committee of the Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy’s (AAPIP) San Francisco chapter. She holds an MPP from the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy and a BS in electrical engineering from MIT.