Casey Shultz

October 3, 2024
Casey Shultz, Director of Community and Impact Investing, brings 15 years of leadership experience in the areas of technology, startups, entrepreneurship and venture capital to the Foundation. Most recently, Casey served as executive director of BETA.MN, a Twin Cities nonprofit that provides Minnesota-based founders of top local tech startups with the resources to grow their companies. At BETA, Casey diversified Read More
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September 2024: News and Notes from NCFP’s Members and Partners

September 17, 2024
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcasing accomplishments, new approaches or giving areas, innovative ideas, and staff and board transitions, and more.  We encourage our members and parters to email us with news that you would like to be shared. Maria Cabildo to Read More
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Using the Mirror Tool to Minimize Unconscious Bias in Grantmaking and Fund Leaders Closest to the Issues

September 5, 2024 | Liz Dozier
Chicago Beyond dramatically shifted its grantmaking and, today, all of its multi-year grants are in support of BIPOC-led organizations with direct experience in the social issues they are working on. Here, Liz Dozier shares more about how the organization went about making this change and introduces Chicago Beyond’s Mirror Tool, which other funders can use to identify and reduce bias Read More

Executive Director

August 8, 2024
The Stryker Johnston Foundation (SJF) is a private family foundation founded by Ronda Stryker and Bill Johnston and based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. SJF partners with organizations and groups to change the systems and structures that create intergenerational poverty, particularly among Black people, people of color, and other communities that have been left out or left behind. SJF is using its Read More

Billy McGuinness

July 30, 2024
Billy McGuinness, Executive Director of the Seabury Foundation, is an artist, teacher, and community builder committed to supporting the deep care work required to respond to society’s greatest challenges. Read More

Program Lead – San Francisco, Pisces Foundation

July 27, 2024
The Pisces Foundation seeks a leader with expertise in place-based approaches to grantmaking and investments and relevant experience working on San Francisco’s unique urban challenges and opportunities to serve in the newly created position of Program Lead – San Francisco (SF). As part of its strategic update, the Pisces Foundation is launching a new initiative to make investments that contribute Read More

Sarah Kirsch

July 25, 2024
Sarah Kirsch manages the affordable housing investment portfolios for the Foundation, both social impact and philanthropic funds, as a key pillar for advancing equitable growth in our region. In support of TogetherATL’s neighborhood and housing goals, the funds are designed to provide gap funding and support deeper and longer-term affordability for rental and ownership homes. Prior to joining the Foundation, Read More

Frank Fernandez

July 25, 2024
Frank Fernandez joined the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta in August 2020, where he leads one of America’s top 20 largest community foundations. The united power of his prior experience and the anchor institution’s 70 plus years of regional leadership combine as a force for good, championing equity and shared prosperity for all who call the Atlanta region home. Frank Read More

Program Officer – Economic Mobility, Crankstart

July 12, 2024
Crankstart is hiring a Program Officer to support our philanthropic and community engagement efforts related to Economic Mobility. The Program Officer manages multiple grant portfolios in the Economic Mobility strategy area, with a focus on four strands of work: 1) workforce development, 2) extending access to safety net benefits, 3) strengthening financial protections for low-income groups, and 4) expanding access Read More