Elizabeth “Buffy” Minkin

Posted on February 15, 2019

Elizabeth R. Minkin (Buffy) is the Director of Baltimore and Domestic Initiatives of the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds, a group of Baltimore-based family foundations with local, national and international impact. Buffy, a fourth generation Meyerhoff family member, is part of a three-member management team that oversees the family’s grant making, strategy and next generation work. Buffy spent… Read More

Elizabeth Guernsey

Posted on February 15, 2019

Elizabeth Guernsey is the director of policy and operations at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She was a research associate at the Urban Institute… Read More

Elizabeth Newton

Posted on February 15, 2019

Elizabeth Newton leads the Family Engagement team as the Director of Family Engagement at Crown Family Philanthropies. She oversees the strategic development and execution of experiences that facilitate the Crown family’s participation in and ongoing engagement with their deep legacy of giving. Prior to joining CFP, Elizabeth worked as an independent philanthropic advisor serving individuals, nonprofit clients, and family and… Read More

Elizabeth Pope

Posted on February 15, 2019

Elizabeth Pope is a freelance journalist based in Maine. Currently, she is working with The New York Times. She has contributed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy and was the assistant press secretary to Senator Byrd of West Virginia… Read More

Elizabeth Storer

Posted on February 15, 2019

Elizabeth Storer is the President and CEO of the George B. Storer Foundation, a foundation established in 1955 by her grandfather, a pioneer in radio and television broadcasting. She led the Foundation through a process that has engaged two new generations, restructured its governance, revamped its investment policy, hired its first staff, adopted a strategic plan, and availed itself of family counseling… Read More

Elizabeth Sullivan

Posted on February 15, 2019

Elizabeth Sullivan brings deep knowledge on national trends, strategy, and best practices in private philanthropy and corporate giving. In March 2015, Liz joined the National Center for Family Philanthropy as Program Manager to launch the two-year Family Philanthropy Through Community Foundations initiative, designed to enhance the effectiveness of families working with community foundations as their giving partners. From 2006 to… Read More

Elizabeth T. Boris

Posted on February 15, 2019

Elizabeth T. Boris became the founding director of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. The Center conducts research on the role and impact of nonprofit organizations and the policy issues that affect them. The Center also hosts the National Center for Charitable Statistics, which builds and maintains the nation’s largest research database on… Read More

Ellen Arrick

Posted on February 15, 2019

Ellen Arrick became a program investment officer for the Ford Foundation in the 1980s, evaluating investments in enterprises that advanced social purposes. She went on to be a consultant to a number of foundations and funder collaboratives in the New York area. Ellen was a writer and managing editor for GrantCraft, a project of the Ford Foundation. There she created several… Read More