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Lisa Ranghelli is NCRP’s senior director of evaluation and learning, and primary author of Power Moves: Your essential philanthropy assessment guide for equity and justice. She developed Power Moves from Philamplify, an innovative initiative that assessed a dozen major foundations with a social justice and equity lens. She also oversees NCRP’s internal learning and evaluation. Previously, Lisa directed NCRP’s Grantmaking for Community Impact… Read More

Lissa Widoff has been the executive director at the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation since 1999. She was project director of the Maine Community Foundation from 1998-2002, and program director of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation from 1993-1998… Read More

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

Linda Katz, a founder of Women Give San Diego, has served as a community leader and volunteer in the San Diego region for 30 years. Linda is the Founding President of The San Diego Women’s Foundation. She is a past Board Chair of LEAD San Diego, Planned Parenthood of San Diego & Riverside Counties, Senior Community Centers and Children’s Hospital… 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