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Leslie Pine has been the principal architect of TPI’s creative approach to program design and strategy, managing TPI’s program staff in the research, design, implementation, and evaluation of a wide range of innovative philanthropic strategies and initiatives. This work has transformed the concept of strategic philanthropy into high-impact philanthropic action, helping funders and corporations develop new and more effective approaches… Read More

Leah Gary is the President and CEO of the William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Previously she was the Vice President for Program and Evaluation at the Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Gary was vice president for Community Health, Workforce Development and the Northeast Ohio Trauma Foundation at the Center for Health Affairs where… Read More

Leap Ambassadors Community is a private community of nonprofit thought leaders, leader practitioners, progressive funders, policy makers, and instigators who believe “performance matters.”… Read More

Learn Foundation Law was developed in 2010 by the legal staff at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. We joined together to develop a comprehensive training program on legal issues in grantmaking. The goal of our collaboration is to create online, web-based trainings to… Read More

Lenora Suki, CFA, CAIA, LEED AP, manages Product Strategy for Bloomberg’s Sustainable Finance activities and chairs the Finance Committee as a Board member for the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. At Bloomberg, Lenora’s emphasis is on extending Bloomberg’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) product and other sustainable finance efforts across asset classes to help Bloomberg clients understand a comprehensive range of… Read More

Laura Gassner Otting helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get “unstuck” — and achieve extraordinary results. Laura speaks with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to get them past the doubt and indecision that consign their great ideas to limbo. She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and catalytic perspective informed by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, and… Read More

Laura J. Brown, CAP®, is a Senior Gift Development Officer at The Dallas Foundation. Laura joined The Dallas Foundation in November 2014 as a member of the development team and works closely with donors, potential donors, and their professional advisors to cultivate major and planned gifts. She previously spent over a decade in nonprofit fundraising at the Dallas Black Dance Theatre,… Read More