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Jesse Lyn Stoner, founder of Seapoint Center, has helped leaders create collaborative, engaged organizations that make a powerful and positive impact on the world. A business consultant, coach, former executive, and bestselling author, Jesse has worked in a wide range of industries including Fortune 500s, small startups, government agencies, and nonprofits… Read More

Jessica Bearman works with foundations and other mission-based organizations, focusing on organization development, facilitation, planning, and project R&D to help them become more intentional, effective, and responsive to the communities that they serve. As a consultant and in her prior role as deputy director of the New Ventures in Philanthropy, she has written and spoken widely about new and established philanthropy… Read More

Jessica Green, a third generation family member, has just completed her first three year term as board member and Vice President of The Duchossois Family Foundation. During that term she was actively involved in the strategy sessions that lead to the first transformational gift under the new board leadership to UChicago Medicine known as the Duchossois Family Institute which launched in October of this year. She also chairs… Read More

Jill Gordon is the Program Director for the Youth Philanthropy Initiative of Indiana (YPII).  Locally based in Indianapolis, Indiana and nationally connected, YPII is a signature program of the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance.   Jill oversees YPII’s role in providing trainings, resources, technical assistance and best practices to nonprofits and foundations promoting and supporting youth philanthropy efforts.  Jill brings over 15 years… Read More

Jillian Wu is a junior at Lick Wilmerding High School. She is currently a youth philanthropist and Program Officer for BLING (Building Leaders in Innovative New Giving), a youth philanthropy group that stresses youth leadership and youth helping youth. She has been a part of BLING for a year and a half now, just kicking off her fourth semester as… Read More

Jim Frey became president of the Frey Foundation in 2003. The Frey Foundation is a Minneapolis-based family foundation that works with nonprofit partners and civic leaders to strengthen its community, promote self-sufficiency and stimulate creative change which results in improved quality of life for all. The foundation’s principal areas of focus are supportive affordable housing and innovative educational initiatives. Prior to… Read More

Joanne E. Cohen is the Vice President of Philanthropic Services for The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida. Cohen joined the Foundation in August of 2012. For the prior ten years, she was the Assistant Executive Director of Jacksonville Jewish Federation, responsible for a $2 million annual campaign. Her experience includes work at the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, LexisNexis, The… Read More

Jen Bokoff is the director of knowledge services at Foundation Center. She develops partnerships and projects that build knowledge and strategy in the social sector, with an eye specifically on grantmakers. In other words, she goes to sleep thinking about how brilliant curation of qualitative and quantitative data can drive smarter decisions in philanthropy. She also runs GrantCraft, a free service… Read More