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Patti Giggans has been the executive director of Peace Over Violence since 1985 and is founder of Denim Day, a day of solidarity for victims of sexual assault… Read More

Niki Jagpal served previously as NCRP’s senior director of research and policy. Niki was the primary author of Criteria for Philanthropy at Its Best: Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaker Impact, and lead author on the High Impact Strategies in Philanthropy series. … Read More

Niles Lichtenstein is the Co-Founder and CEO of The History Project. As a writer and technologist, Niles has always been active in the communities of storytelling and innovation.  While an undergraduate at Harvard, he started the Finding Freedom Through Language project, which opened his eyes to the power of finding narrative frameworks for our memories and stories. In 2015, after a… Read More

Nina Kaushikkar is a 15-year-old freshman at Evanston Township High School. Prior to working with Allowance for Good, she has worked with Pratham, India’s largest NGO in the field of education, participating in a read-a-thon in the 5th grade in which she raised $2,000, as well as working with Kiva and Pennies for Peace in the 3rd grade, leading a… Read More

Nina Waters led Florida’s oldest and largest community foundation, The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, from January 2005 through August 2023. During her tenure, the Foundation’s assets and annual grantmaking grew from $51M to peak assets of more than $630 million and annual grants to the community of more than $50 million. Nina’s accomplishments include the launch of a ten-year… Read More

Nini Meyer is the Founder/Director of PositiveTracks, a national, youth-centric non-profit that incentivizes young people to be active and philanthropic using the global platform of sport. Nini is a Trustee of the Jane B. Cook Charitable Trusts; member of Friends of CHaD Board; Overseer of Hopkins Center For The Arts At Dartmouth; Community Engagement Director of the CHaD HERO Half… Read More

Nora L. Silver is the Director and Adjunct Professor for the Center for Social Sector Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Silver has provided strategy and organizational consulting to nonprofits, foundations, businesses, governments, and universities, including: American Red Cross, Consumers Union, Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps), Georgetown University, Government of Singapore, National Judicial College,… Read More