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Pendred Noyce was Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Massachusetts State Systemic Initiative Program and of PALMS, a $16 million NSF-funded State Systemic Initiative to improve mathematics, science, and technology education in Massachusetts. Currently, Penny chairs the board of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy in Massachusetts. She also serves on the boards of the Concord Consortium, the Consortium… Read More

Perla Ni is the CEO of GreatNonprofits, a nonprofit dedicated to the grassroots democratization of the web to aggregate and share information about nonprofits. She previously co-founded Grassroots.com, a leading online advocacy provider, and was the founder and publisher of the Stanford Social innovation Review, the premiere magazine on nonprofit management and corporate social responsibility. Perla is a frequent blogger and… Read More

Peter Dobkin Hall is an American author and historian. He is professor of History and Theory in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College at City University of New York, and senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University… Read More

Paul Brest is the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, California. He served as law clerk to Judge Bailey Aldrich and Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan, and practiced with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., in Jackson, Mississippi, doing civil rights litigation before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1969. From 1987… Read More

Paul Connolly is a seasoned leader and advisor to philanthropies and nonprofits. At Bessemer Trust, he is responsible for directing the philanthropic advisory services department and working closely with clients to help develop and pursue their philanthropic interests, define their grantmaking strategies, and achieve their social impact goals. At TCC Group, his clients included the James Irvine Foundation, Habitat for… Read More

Paul G. Schervish is professor of sociology and director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. Schervish served as a Fulbright Scholar for the 2000-2001 academic year at University College Cork in the area of research on philanthropy. For the 1999-2000 academic year he was appointed distinguished visiting professor at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy. He… Read More

Paul Jellinek A former vice-president of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and an experienced leader in philanthropy, Dr. Jellinek has a proven track record of developing and managing complex national initiatives that have broken new ground and have had lasting national impact. He has assisted numerous foundation and foundation-funded organizations in developing, implementing, and evaluating their grantmaking strategies and programs, and… Read More

Pamela Fischer is an associate on Arabella Advisors’ impact investing team, where she helps institutional, family, and corporate philanthropists identify investments that accomplish social or environmental goals. Fischer also works with grantmakers, investors, and Arabella’s internal teams to help make their philanthropic activity more equitable and inclusive… Read More

Pamela David is the Executive Director of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund (www.haassr.org), one of San Francisco’s most respected private foundations. Working within four primary areas of focus (public education, economic security, the arts, and Jewish life), the Fund’s mission is to help build a healthy, just, and vibrant society in which people feel connected to and responsible for… Read More