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Beadsie Woo is senior associate in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Center for Community and Economic Opportunity. Beadsie works on strategies to help vulnerable families build and protect their assets to become more financially stable. She coauthored Weathering the Recession: The Financial Crisis and Family Wealth Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods, a report that explored what happened to assets, debts and home equity… Read More

Ben Barge is Field Director at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. As Field Director, Ben strengthens NCRP’s relationships with U.S. social movements and philanthropic organizations to move money and power to community-led advocacy and organizing. Ben manages the Movement Investment Project and leads NCRP’s external engagement with the pro-immigrant, pro-refugee movement. He also oversees staff travel and presentations for… Read More

Barbara Andersen serves as Director, Strategic Partnerships for the Orfalea Foundation. The Orfalea Foundation encourages local non-profit organizations to collaborate and develop strategic partnerships. Andersen leads this effort to increase the efficiency of our grant-making and maximize the philanthropic impact of our collective efforts. Previously, Andersen directed the Aware & Prepare Initiative, a public-private partnership to strengthen emergency preparedness in… Read More

Barbara Chow is the director of the Education program at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, she completed an eight-year term as the director of the Education program for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and resident fellowship at the Bellagio Center, where she focused exclusively on DEI with a broad perspective of the field of philanthropy… Read More

Barbara J. Elliott is the founder of the Center for Cultural Renewal, a resource center she founded in 1997 for faith-based organizations working to renew the cities of America. She is also the founder of the WorkFaith Connection, which has been serving people leaving homelessness, prison, drug addiction and joblessness. Since its beginning in 2007, they have transitioned more than… Read More

Barbara Hostetter is co-founder and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Barr Foundation. She served as the Foundation’s president from its inception through 2014, managing its early grantmaking, overseeing organizational development, and shaping grantmaking strategies. She worked closely with the Foundation’s first two executive directors and became board chair with the arrival of Barr’s current president, Jim Canales,… Read More

Barbara Kibbe joined the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation as director of organizational effectiveness in 2013. She came to the Foundation with 25 years of experience in philanthropy as an executive, a consultant, a grantmaker, and a foundation program director working with family, private, corporate, and community foundations. Barbara is co-author of Succeeding with Consultants and Grantmaking Basics. In 2010,… Read More