Beadsie Woo

February 15, 2019
Beadsie Woo is senior associate in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Center for Community and Economic Opportunity. Beadsie works on strategies to help vulnerable families build and protect their assets to become more financially stable. She coauthored Weathering the Recession: The Financial Crisis and Family Wealth Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods, a report that explored what happened to assets, debts and home equity Read More

Ben Barge

February 15, 2019
Ben Barge is Field Director at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. As Field Director, Ben strengthens NCRP’s relationships with U.S. social movements and philanthropic organizations to move money and power to community-led advocacy and organizing. Ben manages the Movement Investment Project and leads NCRP’s external engagement with the pro-immigrant, pro-refugee movement. He also oversees staff travel and presentations for Read More

Barbara Kibbe

February 15, 2019
Barbara Kibbe joined the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation as director of organizational effectiveness in 2013. She came to the Foundation with 25 years of experience in philanthropy as an executive, a consultant, a grantmaker, and a foundation program director working with family, private, corporate, and community foundations. Barbara is co-author of Succeeding with Consultants and Grantmaking Basics. In 2010, Read More

Audrey Jacobs

February 15, 2019
Audrey Jacobs, JD, is the founder and principal of the Sarafina Group an organization providing consultation services to philanthropic and non-profit organizations. Audrey was most recently the Director of the Center for Family Philanthropy at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.  For the past eleven years, Audrey worked with a team to engage individual philanthropists and families in philanthropy.  As Read More

Ashley Rodriguez

February 15, 2019
Ashley Naomi Rodriguez found her love for helping and improving her community when she joined Youth Funding Youth Ideas – a philanthropy program located in San Francisco – at the age of 16. She started as a Program Officer and is now a Senior Peer Supervisor. She is 20 years old and is currently a junior at San Francisco State Read More

Ashley Smith Juarez

February 15, 2019
Ashley Smith Juarez is Executive Director of the Chartrand Foundation, a family foundation launched in 2006 to support public education and early childhood initiatives. Ashley is a Jacksonville native who studied at Vanderbilt University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, earning a bachelor’s degree in History and Secondary Education. While receiving her degree, she was a substitute teacher and worked Read More

Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers

February 15, 2019
The Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers is dedicated to to maximizing the impact of philanthropic giving on community life through a growing network of diverse, informed and effective grantmakers. ABAG was founded in 1983 to provide a forum in which colleagues could address common problems, approaches and interests. ABAG’s members include more than 145 private and community foundations, donor advised Read More

Ariana Snowdon

February 15, 2019
Ariana Snowdon is a trustee of the Hill-Snowdon Foundation and an executive fellow at Resource Generation in Seattle, Washington. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a B.A. in the Science in Society Program, concentrating in Environmental Science and Sociology, with a focus in Public Health. Prior to joining the Hill-Snowdon board, she served for four years as a Read More

Annie E. Casey Foundation

February 15, 2019
The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. It was established in 1948 by Jim Casey, one of the founders of UPS, and his siblings, who named the Foundation in honor of their mother. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, Read More

Andrea Hernandez Rodriguez

February 15, 2019
Andrea Hernandez Rodriguez (she/her/they) is a mom, partner, and lover of humanity with over two decades of practice in nonprofit and foundation management, organizing, capacity building, and systems change. She specializes in conflict transformation centering race; intergenerational giving that shares power with young people; and holding compassionate change for leaders, especially founding executive and board transitions. Dr. Hernandez Rodriguez received Read More