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Allison Ross currently heads the Talent Acquisition function for Kendo Brands in San Francisco, a rapidly growing beauty brand incubator. Her extensive Recruiting and Human Resources experience has focused on searches for corporate and start-up companies, primarily consumer-based organizations such as Bare Minerals, Levi Strauss and Charles Schwab. For over 20 years Allison has recruited talent from senior executives to… Read More

To assist organizations progress as they adapt to the continuing changes and challenges of the 21st Century, eJewish Philanthropy was launched in 2007 as an independent on-line publisher and a facilitator of resource mobilization serving the professional Jewish community. Striving to provide all our visitors with sustained access to external resources, we serve as an instant publishing channel highlighting the latest happenings… Read More

Brad Norton is the Director of Endowment Solutions at Winfield Associates. Brad has 17 years of institutional investment experience with 14 years as an equity research analyst at Victory Capital Management. He is a graduate of Bucknell University (BSBA) and Georgetown University (MBA). Brad is a CFA Charterholder and a CPA (inactive). He has over 20 years of endowment experience… Read More

Colleen joined the CFHZ team in 2018. As Vice President of Development and Donor Services, Colleen will lead CFHZ’s efforts to grow the Community’s Endowment and provide services to donors to help them achieve their charitable goals. She will work with individuals, families and companies, along with their Professional Advisors, to help them organize their charitable giving for maximum impact… Read More

Allow Good is a Chicagoland nonprofit that has been running youth programming for five years. Their mission is empower all youth through the tools of philanthropy to take meaningful action in their world… Read More

On May 1, 2019 Jeffrey J. (“Jeff”) Fairfield became the first Executive Director of The Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust.  From its establishment in May 2006 until May 2019, Mr. Fairfield served as a Managing Co-trustee for the Trust, initially in concert with the late L. Farnum Johnson, Jr. until his death in 2012, and thereafter as a sole… Read More

Dan Fontaine is the Executive Director of Wilderness Youth Project. Dan first attended a tracking workshop with Wilderness Youth Project (WYP) in 2001 and hasn’t been able to quit the project since. Over the years he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of WYP. Although he’s been a resident of Goleta since 1994, his reverent appreciation of the environment around… Read More

Valaida Fullwood is author of Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists, creator of The Soul of Philanthropy exhibit, and co-founder of New Generation of African American Philanthropists, a giving circle in Charlotte, NC. Read The Sweetness of Circles for more on the country’s Black-led giving circles… Read More

Janice Simsohn Shaw is an adept, high-energy facilitator with 20 years of experience helping philanthropic and social change leaders to be better partners, listeners, and givers. She is a passionate and vocal advocate for the power of communal learning and action, proudly serving a diverse range of inspiring groups in helping move their work forward in meaningful ways. As a… Read More

Don Chen is the President of the Surdna Foundation where he leads the 100-year old foundation’s efforts to strengthen and further leverage its commitment to social justice. Prior to his appointment, Don was the Director of the Cities & States program at the Ford Foundation, where his work supported urban development initiatives to make housing more affordable, promote more equitable… Read More