Lisa Pilar Cowan

February 15, 2019
Lisa Pilar Cowan is the Vice President of Programs at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and in this capacity she helps with strategy, development and oversight of foundation programs and grantmaking. Lisa has been working with community-based organizations for the last 25 years, first as a community health educator and program director at several youth-serving agencies, then as a Senior Read More

Lisa Ranghelli

February 15, 2019
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

February 15, 2019
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

February 15, 2019
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

Lori Bartczak

February 15, 2019
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 Katz

February 15, 2019
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

Leah Gary

February 15, 2019
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

Lee Draper

February 15, 2019
Lee Draper is president at Draper Consulting Group. She has held multiple management positions at various foundations, such as the Ahmanson Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation and the California Community Foundation.  Read More

Leonor Alfonso

February 15, 2019
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 Pine

February 15, 2019
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