1659 Results for “community”

Berit Ashla serves as Vice President at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.  Based in San Francisco, Berit leads RPA’s West Coast advisory work, manages client engagements and works with a range of individual, family and corporate donors. She brings a wealth of experience in grantmaking, foundation governance, education, social justice, arts and sustainability.  She is a frequent contributor to national and regional Read More

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 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 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, 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 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 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