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Mike Tracy has been active in philanthropy since the age of 13 working with his family foundation, Tracy Family Foundation. He has been an active youth committee member and participated in the foundation’s next generation grant programs. He is currently working as a Program Intern with Youth Philanthropy Connect. He has served as a member of the YPC Leadership Team… Read More

Dr. Miki Kashtan, Lead Collaboration Consultant at the Center for Efficient Collaboration, has successfully coached families, groups, and organizations to overcome seemingly impassable differences. Miki draws on over 20 years of experience as a facilitator and consultant working with businesses, nonprofits, government bodies, and community groups. In 2004 she created the CEC’s collaborative decision-making tool, Convergent Facilitation, and she has… Read More

Mirellise Vazquez serves as the Tauck Family Foundation’s Interim Executive Director, spearheading the foundation’s due diligence process and managing the portfolio of non-profit investees. Prior to joining the foundation in 2010, she held several posts in the public and non-profit sectors, focusing on children’s rights and education, including grant-making, research, and advocacy. Mirellise has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy… Read More

Melinda Tuan is Fund for Shared Insight’s managing director, guiding and facilitating the collaborative’s operations, communications, grantmaking, evaluation, and more. As an independent consultant to senior leadership at philanthropic organizations around the country, Melinda promotes, crafts, and implements strategies for effective philanthropy. Prior to starting her consulting practice in 2003, Melinda co-founded and ran REDF, a social-venture capital fund; served… Read More

Melissa Berman is the founding President and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc., an innovative nonprofit philanthropy service launched by the Rockefeller family in 2002. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ mission is to help donors create thoughtful, effective philanthropy throughout the world.  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors develops strategic plans, conducts research, manages foundations and trusts, structures major gifts, coordinates donor collaboratives, and provides regranting… Read More

The Mellam Family Foundation is a private foundation established in 1987 by Laural D. Mellam (1905-1993) in memory of her late husband, Leo L. Mellam (1906-1985). Mr. Mellam was the founder of Flexi-Van Corporation. In the transportation industry, he is widely known as the “father of containerization”, having developed the model for containerized freight transportation now in use throughout the… Read More