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Olivia Golden is the executive director of CLASP. An expert in child and family programs at the federal, state, and local levels, she has a track record of delivering results for low-income children and families in the nonprofit sector and at all levels of government. When she served as Commissioner for Children, Youth, and Families and then as Assistant Secretary for… 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