The Durfee Foundation

February 15, 2019
The Durfee Foundation’s focus is on extraordinary people who are making a better Los Angeles. Durfee is a family foundation that seeks to adhere to the values of our founders, Dorothy Durfee Avery and R. Stanton Avery, by rewarding individual initiative and leadership. The majority of our grantmaking focuses on the Los Angeles region, where the foundation’s history lies, and Read More

Dennis Bidwell

February 15, 2019
Dennis Bidwell is principal of Bidwell Advisors, a Massachusetts consulting firm specializing in real estate gifts, serving non-profit clients around the country as well as private property owners. Prior to forming Bidwell Advisors, Bidwell was national land protection director at American Farmland Trust, and worked in Boston as vice president of Leggat McCall Advisors, as development officer at National Trust Read More

Diane Kaplan

February 15, 2019
Diane Kaplan was named president of the Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the Pacific Northwest, in 2011. She began administering the Foundation in 1995. From 1994-2001, Diane’s consulting company provided management and government relations services to philanthropic and nonprofit organizations and Native corporations and tribes. She was previously president and chief executive officer of Alaska’s Read More

Debbie Berger

February 15, 2019
Debbie Berger is co-founder and board chair of Unbound Philanthropy, an international foundation dedicated to promoting the ideal of self-determination.  Unbound’s mission is to work collaboratively to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees while strengthening the host communities in which they live.  Prior to the establishment of Unbound Philanthropy, Ms. Berger worked for JP Morgan in New York, Tokyo Read More

Deborah Dauber

February 15, 2019
Deborah Dauber, PhD MPH is an experienced strategist with fifteen years of advising in private and public sectors.  Her areas of content expertise are health care and medical research, with a focus on organizations with a local impact.  She serves as a Director for the Dauber Foundation and a member of the Economic Development and Justice Giving Circle of the East Read More

David Nee

February 15, 2019
David Nee grew up in a housing project in South Boston, Massachusetts, in one of the poorest urban white neighborhoods in America. He became the first executive director of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund in 1993. The Memorial Fund works collaboratively to improve education for Connecticut’s children by supporting school change, informing the public debate on educational issues, and Read More

David O. Barrett

February 15, 2019
David Barrett is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of the Gene B. Glick Company. Prior to joining Glick in 2007, David served as vice president-corporate counsel at Emmis Communications Corporation, a diversified media company based in Indianapolis. Before joining Emmis in 1999, he practiced law in Indianapolis at Ice Miller LLP, where he concentrated his practice in corporate law, Read More

Dean Phillips

February 15, 2019
Dean Phillips is Chairman and co-owner of Talenti Gelato, America’s 3rd largest premium ice cream brand and the world’s best selling packaged gelato. Previously, Mr. Phillips served as President & CEO of Phillips Distilling Company, representing the fifth generation of his family to manage the business established by his great-great-grandfather in 1912. During his tenure, he participated in the creation Read More

Daniel Horgan

February 15, 2019
Daniel Horgan seeks to change the world by equipping, elevating and evolving others through his words and actions. He is an avid student of life, striving to learn from each person he encounters and each experience he embraces.  Sparked by a volunteer experience with the YMCA at the age of 12, Daniel went on to pioneer the first youth-led Community Read More

Danielle LaJoie

February 15, 2019
Danielle LaJoie currently serves as the Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy Graduate Assistant at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2018 with a B.A. in Political Science. She currently serves on the Council of Michigan Foundations Board of Trustees and as their 2017 Mawby Intern. Read More