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Stephanie Cohn Rupp is the Chief Operating Officer of Veris Wealth Partners and has over 20 years of experience in international impact investing working with families and foundations. Prior to her current position, she was Managing Director of Tiedemann Wealth Management’s Impact Investing practice and headed the firm’s burgeoning San Francisco office… Read More

Stephen Chambers is a Senior Consultant and the Deputy Manager of the History Division at The Winthrop Group, where he specializes in organizational and family history. Stephen has directed or co-authored numerous philanthropic projects and reports, regularly collaborating with experts from leading institutions to support philanthropic decision making and economically sustainability. He has widely published on family and organizational history… Read More

Stephen Isaacs is an attorney, writer-editor, and former Columbia University professor of public health with extensive experience in health, philanthropy, social development, and human rights, both domestically and internationally. He is an advisor to many foundations on strategic development, program planning, assessment, and communications, and he edits The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy series… Read More

Stephen P. Johnson is the executive director of the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation. He joined the foundation after 13 years with the Philanthropic Initiative, Inc., a Boston philanthropy consulting firm, where he worked with a wide range of philanthropies, both domestic and global. He is a frequent author and speaker on strategic and family philanthropy, and has served… Read More

Steve Toben is the former president of the Flora Family Foundation. Before joining the FFF staff in 2000, Mr. Toben served for nine years as a program officer at the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation where he directed the foundation’s programs on conflict resolution and the environment.  He is a former chair of the Environmental Grantmakers Association and a co-founder… Read More

Dr. Stephen R. Treat is a senior therapist and former director and CEO of Council for Relationships, the nation’s oldest and largest counseling agency. In his role as CEO, he managed the running of 14 clinical offices throughout the Greater Philadelphia area, numerous professional and public educational programs, and his own busy clinical practice as CFR. Dr. Treat continues to… Read More

Stephen Viederman is the former president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and a proponent of responsible investing. He is on the board of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, the board of Responsible Endowment Coalition and the Advisory Committee of Inflection Point Capital Management… Read More

Steve Kirsch is the founder of the Kirsch Foundation, which invests in causes where high-impact, leverageable activities can result in a safer and healthier world. Kirsch is also founder and chairman of Propel Software and CEO of Abaca, both Silicon Valley start-ups. He is founder and chairman of Infoseek Corporation, an Internet navigation service that was acquired by the Walt… Read More

Stacey Faella is dedicated to working toward a more just and sustainable world through philanthropy and impact investing. She has 15+ years of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors working on a variety of causes including gender and racial equity, food systems transformation, inclusive economic development, biodiversity and climate change, and democracy. Stacey has significant experience working on foundation… Read More