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Diane Feeney is director at the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy and President at the French American Charitable Trust… Read More

Diane Kaplan was named president of the Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the Pacific Northwest, in 2011. She began administering the Foundation in 1995. From 1994-2001, Diane’s consulting company provided management and government relations services to philanthropic and nonprofit organizations and Native corporations and tribes. She was previously president and chief executive officer of Alaska’s… Read More

Deborah Santana is an author, philanthropist, activist for peace and social justice, and founder of Do A Little, a non-profit that serves women and girls in the areas of health, education and happiness. Her memoir, Space Between The Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart, was published in 2005. Ms. Santana has produced two documentary films with Emmy-award winning director… Read More

Denis Chicola is the director of communications at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. He strives to ensure that the Fund is using communications to drive positive change across all of its program areas. Denis helps the Fund be a voice for change on issues from gay and lesbian and immigrant rights, to nonprofit leadership. He works closely with the Fund’s… Read More

Dennis Bidwell is principal of Bidwell Advisors, a Massachusetts consulting firm specializing in real estate gifts, serving non-profit clients around the country as well as private property owners. Prior to forming Bidwell Advisors, Bidwell was national land protection director at American Farmland Trust, and worked in Boston as vice president of Leggat McCall Advisors, as development officer at National Trust… Read More