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Peggy Dulany is Chair of The Synergos Institute, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to creating effective, sustainable and locally based solutions to poverty. Drawing from her experience living and working in Rio de Janeiro as a young woman, she realized that the people most affected by adverse living conditions also have the greatest energy and motivation to solve their problems… Read More

Stephanie Cardon is an artist and writer, adjunct faculty at Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and Executive Editor of Big Red & Shiny, a Boston-based non-profit and online magazine focusing on contemporary art issues and ideas. She is a fifth generation descendent of John E. Andrus, who founded the Surdna Foundation in 1917, and she serves as Vice-Chair on… Read More

Bill Campbell is currently a Senior Advisor to the Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he was most recently Chairman of Chase Card Services, the nation’s largest credit card organization. From 2005 to 2007, he served as Chairman of Visa International, leading the organization to its IPO in 2008, the largest in U.S. history. In 2001, together with his… Read More

Jennifer Buffett is Co-Chair and President of the NoVo Foundation (“NoVo” is Latin: create. change.) a philanthropic organization focused primarily on the empowerment of women and girls. She has taken the lead shaping the strategic direction of NoVo and shares Board leadership of the foundation with her husband, composer and producer, Peter Buffett. NoVo Foundation’s approach is to invest in long-term… Read More

Kelly Brown is Director of the D5 Coalition, a five-year effort to increase philanthropy’s diversity, equity and inclusiveness. Ms. Brown was Director of Programs and Evaluation at Marguerite Casey Foundation, which invests up to $30 million annually in organizations working to strengthen the voice and capacity of low-income families and Grants Director at the Vanguard Public Foundation where she designed,… Read More

Jason Baron is the creator and portfolio manager for the Socially Innovative Investing (S2I) strategy in the investments group within U.S. Trust. Prior to joining U.S. Trust, Jason served as the group head for the community investing team at Lehman Brothers where he was responsible for the design and implementation of socially responsible and mission-oriented investment products. He began his… Read More

Michael J. Balaoing, Esq. is a twenty-year veteran of global philanthropy and nonprofit leadership. A public interest attorney, he served as board secretary of the Council on Foundations, board chairman of the Liberty Hill Foundation, secretary of the Philippine Development Foundation, chairman of California Volunteers, and Program Director at The California Wellness Foundation. For the last decade, he was Senior… Read More

Elizabeth Andrus is a fourth generation descendent of John E. Andrus, who founded the Surdna Foundation in 1917. She has also been a board member of the following Andrus philanthropies: Andrus on Hudson, the Andrus Children’s Home and the Helen Andrus Benedict Foundation… Read More

Hal Harvey is CEO at ClimateWorks Foundation. Together with Paul Brest he is co-author of Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy. … Read More