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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

Determined to put the fun in funder, Lenore Hanisch brings a unique sense of joy and perspective of abundance to her role as a board member and Senior Director of Engagement and Partnerships of the Quixote Foundation. Described as a “free-range rebel,” Lenore brings courage, conscience, and silo-busting ideas to Quixote and the Women Donors Network, where she served on… Read More

Leonor Alfonso is senior program specialist at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. GEO is a diverse community of more than 450 grantmakers working to reshape the way philanthropy operates. We are committed to advancing smarter grantmaking practices that enable nonprofits to grow stronger and achieve better results. Leonor plays a key role in GEO’s publishing and peer learning work, and leads other… Read More

Leslie Crutchfield is an internationally-renowned author, speaker, and leading authority on scaling social innovation and high-impact philanthropy. She serves as a Senior Advisor with FSG, a nonprofit strategy firm cofounded in 1999 as Foundation Strategy Group by Mark R. Kramer and Michael E. Porter. Leslie and FSG managing directors John Kania and Mark Kramer are co-authors of Do More Than… Read More

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