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Lois Mitchell has extensive experience directing philanthropic initiatives, navigating strategic plans, and building key partnerships with cross-sector leadership. She guides multi-generational family, community, corporate, private, and operating foundations to build governance, processes, organizational culture, legacy, branded programs and facilitated retreats, forums and board sessions. As President of the Orfalea Foundations from 2000-2015, Mitchell led a 20+ member team through innovative collaborations,… Read More

Lora Smith serves as Communications Officer for Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Lora oversees all strategic communications for the Foundation and serves as a member of the Program Team with a focus on grantee communications capacity. Before coming to Babcock, Lora held several positions in the non-profit sector including working for the grassroots organization, Kentuckians for the… Read More

As senior director of knowledge and content, Lori oversees the firm’s content and communications activities. She works with clients and the team to identify top-of-mind questions and issues, design original research and learning experiences to address them, and create and disseminate content that helps nonprofits and foundations in their work. While at Community Wealth Partners, Lori’s work has focused primarily… Read More

Linda Taaffe is associate editor at the Palo Alto Weekly, an award-winning weekly newspaper serving the San Francisco Peninsula’s Palo Alto area… Read More

Linda Tracy is a Program Associate for the Tracy Family Foundation which supports charitable institutions focused on education, youth and families and leadership. She works on family engagement, the education initiatives and serves as the advisor for their Next Gen Advisory Board. For 4 years she served as a trustee on TFF’s board and now serves on the board of… Read More

Lindsay Louie supports many aspects of Fund for Shared Insight, including with leadership roles focused on funder engagement and locally-led development funding globally. Through her independent consulting practice, Lindsay also works with foundations and philanthropists on strategy development, grantmaker training, team development, and program implementation. A seasoned social sector leader, Lindsay previously served as the program officer for Philanthropy Grantmaking at… Read More

Lindsey Griffith has been a fifth-generation member of the Andrus family for ten years. Her husband’s great-great grandfather was John Emory Andrus, who endowed the Surdna Foundation in his estate one-hundred-and-one years ago. For her part, Lindsey has served for the past three years on the Andrus Family Fund (AFF), a program for direct descendants, spouses and children ages 25-45 that… Read More

Lesly Bosch Annen, Vice President, Development and External Affairs, Dallas Women’s Foundation, has 20 years of broad-based development and communications experience. She successfully planned and implemented the Dallas Women’s Foundation $30 million comprehensive campaign (2007-2011), which raised $35 million and an additional $30 million in planned gifts. Lesly has significant experience in major gifts, philanthropy education, strategic planning, volunteer coordination,… Read More