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Allow Good

Posted on August 20, 2019

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

Jeffrey J. Fairfield

Posted on August 16, 2019

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

Posted on August 14, 2019

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

Posted on August 12, 2019

Valaida Fullwood
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

Posted on August 1, 2019

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

Jamie Allison

Posted on July 25, 2019

Jamie Allison
Jamie Allison leads the Walter & Elise Haas Fund in partnership with trustees, ensuring that the foundation’s work expresses its values, resonates with community, and catalyzes the field. She focuses on organizational leadership, strategy, and governance. Her top priorities are to ensure that the Fund’s staff thrive in their roles and that the Fund’s practices and grantmaking advance liberation and… Read More

Don Chen

Posted on July 25, 2019

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

Joe Goldman

Posted on July 25, 2019

Joe Goldman is the President of the Democracy Fund, a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people. He is also the President of Democracy Fund Voice, previously Democracy Fund Action. Before joining the Democracy Fund, Joe was an Investment Director at Omidyar Network, where he… Read More

Miles Veney

Posted on July 19, 2019

Miles Veney is a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studies biology and economics. Miles interned at NCFP Summer 2019 and will graduate from college in May 2020. Find out what Miles is doing next on his LinkedIn… Read More

C’Ardiss “CC” Gardner Gleser

Posted on July 18, 2019

CC Gardner Gleser
C’Ardiss “CC” Gardner Gleser is an advocate for social impact and racial justice work. CC began her career in the tech sector, later transitioning to non-profit work to better fulfill her purpose and passion. CC moved from working in nonprofits to the funding side to increase her impact and is now entrenched in the philanthropic sector. CC was the first… Read More

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