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National
Center
Board of
Directors
The
National Center's
Board of Directors represents a broad range of leaders in the field of
family philanthropy. Included are family foundation donors and trustees,
community foundation staff and board members, advisors, and consultants to
family philanthropies.
Mary Mountcastle, Chair
Trustee, Z. Smith Reynolds, Mary Reynolds Babcock and Triangle
Community Foundations
Mary Mountcastle is a trustee of the Z. Smith Reynolds, Mary Reynolds
Babcock and Triangle Community Foundations. She is Senior Associate at
Self-Help, a nonprofit community development lender that has made $5 billion
in loans to over 55,000 low-wealth families across the U.S. She currently
serves on the boards of the Neighborhood Funders Group, the National Center
for Family Philanthropy and the Corporation for Enterprise Development. She
previously was President of the Center for Responsible Lending, Vice
President of Economic Development for MDC Inc, a nonprofit policy research
center, and Director of the Social Investment Program for MetLife Insurance
Co. She has also worked at various levels of government. In 1992, she
received the Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking from the Council on
Foundations. She holds a MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA
from Williams College.William C. Graustein,
Vice-Chair
Trustee, William Caspar Graustein Memorial
Fund
William C.
Graustein is the lead trustee of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial
Fund. In 1993, in response to an increase in the Memorial Fund's assets,
he oversaw its transition from a volunteer run operation to a
professionally staffed, mission driven organization. Prior to that, he
was a research scientist in Yale's Department of Geology and Geophysics.
He serves on the board of the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy and
chairs the board of Public Allies. Dr. Graustein co-founded and helps
operate the Community Leadership Program to help develop and support
values-based collaborative leadership in his hometown of New Haven,
Connecticut.
Alicia Anne Philipp, Treasurer
President, The Community
Foundation for Greater Atlanta
For the past 30 years, Alicia Philipp has led the Foundation's
grantmaking, fundraising and consultation to donors, other grantmakers,
and nonprofit organizations. Under her leadership, the Foundation has
grown from $7 million in 1977 to nearly $750 million, and has become one
of the largest community foundations in the United States, and one of
the first to establish a Center on Family Philanthropy within the
foundation. Ms. Philipp is a member of the advisory committee of the
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and
serves as a board member of Central Atlanta Progress. She has
previously served as a board member of the Council on Foundations, the
Southeastern Council of Foundations, and Independent Sector. Her
current leadership service includes: the Philanthropic Collaborative for
a Healthy Georgia, the Junior League of Atlanta Board and Chair of the
Nonprofit Studies Program at Georgia State University. Community
Investment Committee, and the Council on Foundations Community
Foundation Leadership Team.
Nancy Brain, Secretary
Trustee and Co-Director,
Francis
Hollis Brain Foundation, and Executive Director, Sam L. Cohen Foundation
Nancy Brain is a trustee and Co-Director of the Frances Hollis Brain
Foundation, a family foundation founded in Kentucky in 1993, focusing on
Kentucky, Maine, Georgia and Ohio, and making grants in a wide range of
areas such as human services, health, education, and religious
programs. Ms. Brain is the Executive Director of the Sam L. Cohen
Foundation, serving southern Maine. She is also a trustee of the Nine
Wickets Foundation, a family foundation serving southern Maine, and
serves on the board of the Maine Philanthropy Center, of which she was a
founding member.
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Caroline D. Avery
President, Durfee Foundation
Carrie Avery is President
of the Durfee Foundation, a family foundation that has been based in Los
Angeles, California since its establishment in 1960. The Durfee
Foundation makes grants in arts and culture, community development and
education, mainly in the Los Angeles region. The Foundation focuses on
individuals by providing fellowships, grants to new grassroots
organizations with dynamic leadership and sabbaticals to long-time
nonprofit leaders.
Carrie serves on the
Ethics & Practices Committee for the Council on Foundations in
Washington, DC. She also serves on the board of St. Paul’s Episcopal
School in Oakland, which is recognized nationally for its service
learning in the community. She is on the Berkeley Law Alumni Association
Board, and serves as an Advisor to the International Convention on Human
Rights Research Project at the law school. She is the author of The
Guide to Successful Small Grants Programs: When a Little Goes a Long
Way.
Carrie chaired the Board of Directors of Northern California Grantmakers;
she also founded and for several years chaired NCG's Family Philanthropy
Exchange. She has served on the board of the Berkeley Community Fund,
where she also chaired the Grantmaking Committee. She is a past co-chair
of the board of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San
Francisco Bay Area, and a past trustee of Pitzer College in Claremont,
California.
Prior to working with the
Durfee Foundation, Carrie practiced law, first with the National Women’s
Law Center in Washington, DC, and later with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown &
Enersen (now Bingham McCutchen) in San Francisco. Carrie received her
B.A. from Stanford University, her J.D. from the University of
California at Berkeley, and was a Georgetown University Women’s Law and
Public Policy Fellow. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, California
Superior Court Judge Jon Tigar, and two sons.
Judy Belk,
Board Member Elect
Senior Vice
President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Judy Belk has over twenty years of leadership
experience in strategic philanthropy, community relations, corporate
citizenship, and nonprofit management. Judy currently serves as a Senior
Vice President of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), where she
leads the organization’s West Coast operations with offices in San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors provides
research and counsel on charitable giving, develops philanthropy
programs, and offers complete program, administrative and management
services for foundations and trusts. Before joining RPA, she served as
Vice President of Global Public Affairs for Levi Strauss & Co.,
reporting directly to the Chairman and CEO. During her tenure at the
company, Judy also spearheaded the Levi Strauss Foundation, with assets
totaling over $120 million. Under her leadership the foundation and
company developed a global reputation for its international work in the
fight against AIDS, economic development, and anti-racism initiatives.
Judy
currently serves on the boards of Southern California Grantmakers (SCG)
and the Marlborough School in Los Angeles. She most recently served as a
board member for The Ms. Foundation for Women and in the past has served
on the boards of The Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the ACLU of Northern
California. Judy has written and lectured extensively on organizational
ethics, race, and social change. Her articles have aired on National
Public Radio and have appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco
Chronicle and The Washington Post. She received her undergraduate degree
from Northwestern University and holds a Master of Public Administration
(MPA) from California State University, East Bay. A native of
Alexandria, Virginia, she currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Former head of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Sally Bowles joined
the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation's board of directors in
September 2001. Ms. Bowles helped to establish and served as president
of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. She began her career as a member
of the core working group that drafted the executive order to establish
the Peace Corps and later served as assistant to its director. During a
decade of service with the State of Connecticut, she served as its
Medicaid Director, and as the commissioner overseeing AFDC, General
Assistance, Food Stamps, and other income maintenance programs. Ms.
Bowles subsequently became the executive director of the Rockefeller
Foundation-funded Committee for South African Development. Prior to
joining the Tremaine Foundation, Ms. Bowles served as a consultant to
the Rockefeller Foundation on its program to build international
leadership concerning the global environment and sustainable
development. She is a founding advisory committee member of the Council
on Foundation's Program on Family Philanthropy.
Sarah
Russell Cavanaugh is co-founder and past president of Treeswing, a
Seattle-based nonprofit organization, and serves as trustee and past
president of The Russell Family Foundation. She serves as a board
director of Copper Canyon Press, and on the Honorary Council of
Philanthropy Northwest. She has served on several boards, including the
Council on Foundations. She holds a master's degree in Education from
Stanford University. Sarah is a professional photographer and is
passionate about her husband and three boys.
Linda Evans, Board Member Elect
President and CEO, The Meadows
Foundation
Prior to assuming her current
position, Linda was an active partner in the public relations firm of
Stern, Nathan, & Perryman. Previously she served as Executive Director
of the Dallas Welcoming Committee, the city’s non-partisan host
committee for the 1984 Republican National Convention. A Graduate of
University of Texas at Austin, Linda worked in Washington, DC from 1976
through 1983. She served on President Gerald Ford’s re-election
campaign, was an assistant in the development office of the American
Enterprise Institute, and working for the late Senator John Heinz of
Pennsylvania as an assistant to the press secretary. From 1980 to 1983
she worked in the White House Office of Media Relations and Planning for
President Ronald Reagan.
Linda currently serves on the
Legislation and Regulations Committee for the Council on Foundations and
is immediate past president of the Conference of Southwest Foundations.
She is past chair of the Mid-America Foundations Task Force on Standards
and Accountability, served on the Independent Sector’s Panel on the
Nonprofit Sector to advise the Senate Finance Committee, and the
Effectiveness and Accountability Task Force for the Forum of Regional
Association of Grantmakers.
In 2008 Linda received the
YWCA 100 Outstanding Women’s Award. In 2007 she received the TACA Silver
Cup for her support of the Arts in Dallas and the St. Philip’s Unsung
Hero award for her support of the inner city school and community
center. Past awards include the Dallas Alumni Pi Beta Phi Carolyn Helman
Lichtenberg Crest Award in 2004, the Leadership Dallas Distinguished
Alumni Award in 2003, the Prism Award from the Greater Dallas Mental
Health Association in 2002, and the Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel La
Catholica, one of Spain’s highest honors, in 2002 for her work on behalf
of enhancing relations between Spain and the United States.
Linda is a Past member of the
Council on Foundations Public Policy Task Force, served on the Council’s
Advisory Committee on Family Succession, and chaired the organization’s
2003 conference host committee. She also has served on the boards of Grantmakers in Health and the Conference of Southwest Foundations, where
she chaired the 2002 Conference Site Selection Committee and Served as
Program Chair of the 1999 conference.
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