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Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist turned philanthropist. In the late 19th century, Carnegie amassed a large fortune in the steel industry. With his resulting millions, which in today’s currency would be the equivalent of billlions of dollars, he became a large scale philanthropist, with an emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific reseach. He was the author… Read More

Andrew Hapke is a member of the board of the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, and the grandson of the founders.  His career at the intersection of finance and technology has spanned the non profit and private sector.  He’s worked among other places, in India, West Africa and on Wall Street. He has an MBA from the Yale School of… Read More

Andrea Pactor is interim director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Andrea is responsible for program and curriculum development and implementation, marketing, social media, and operations. She has organized four national symposia on women and philanthropy for the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and five national conferences on the same topic in… Read More

Andrea Zucker previously served as Outreach Coordinator of Nexus Global Youth Summit.  She has also been a writer, activist, and social impact investor who believes that each of us should harness our personal gifts to find our best ways to give.  A native of Charleston, South Carolina, her parents modeled the importance of community involvement from her earliest days and… Read More

Alyssa Hawkins is the Director of Giving Programs for The Minneapolis Foundation. In this role she is responsible for facilitating groups of energetic volunteers as they collaboratively make grantmaking decisions around issues facing our community. She works with corporate employees, Minneapolis high school students, and young to mid career professionals just entering the world of philanthropy, among others, as they… Read More

Ami Aronson, MPH, an entrepreneurial thought-leader in responsive philanthropy, is the Executive Director of the Bernstein Family Foundation. Aronson oversees the foundation’s governance, grant making and communications. Because of her forward-thinking approach and management skills, she has taken the historic foundation into the 21st century through strategic planning and dynamic community engagement. Aronson’s passion for exploring different points of view and her… Read More

Amy Goldman directs the work of Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation, where she oversees grant making focused on health, education and global development. She deploys her experience in diplomacy, political economy, social investment and organizational governance to fund scalable solutions locally and globally.  Previously, Amy served as a lead consultant for Washington D.C.-based International Trade Services, where she focused on trade negotiations… Read More