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Yuval Lion is the Production Director and co-founder of MYLKmedia, a New York based production company that creates award-winning advocacy films for nonprofits, foundations, educational organizations, and others. Yuval previously had a 15 year career producing international news segments and features for the AP, NBC News and PBS. He has twice been nominated for a News Emmy award.   Based on… Read More

Wayne Muller is an executive leadership mentor, therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and bestselling author of several books. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has spent the last thirty-five years working with people suffering abuse, alcoholism, poverty, illness and loss.  … Read More

Whitney Hosty is a senior philanthropic advisor for the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, a leading provider of charitable giving services. With an asset base of more than $3 billion, the Community Foundation has ranked among the top one percent of community foundations in the country since 1999. Whitney oversees the Community Foundation’s donor education program and works closely with… Read More

William Graustein‘s initial career was in the earth sciences. From 1981 to 1996 he was a research scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale studying the behavior of natural radioactive elements in the environment. In 1996 Mr. Graustein left scientific research to devote his time to work in the nonprofit sector. He led the reorganization of his… Read More

William M. Dietel is a former teacher, dean, and principal who ventured into philanthropy in 1970 with the Rockefeller family serving as the Executive Vice President and President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) in New York City. Prior to his time with RBF, Bill was Headmaster of the Emma Willard School, the nation’s oldest private independent school for girls… Read More

Bill Ryan has changed the way nonprofit leaders approach governance. In 2005, Bill and his co-authors challenged conventional wisdom with their seminal book Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards (Wiley and Sons, 2005). Since then, Bill has consulted with dozens of nonprofits, helping make lasting improvements in their governance. Bill also spent 10 years as principal and… Read More

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) is part of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. WPI increases understanding of women’s philanthropy through rigorous research and education, interpreting and sharing these insights broadly to improve philanthropy. The Women Give series is its signature research project… Read More