Elyse C. Pollick Byrnes

March 12, 2019
Elyse C. Pollick Barnes joined the Foundant team in 2018 after working in the philanthropy sector for the last six years at York County Community Foundation as a Community Investment Officer and Grants Development Manager at the York County Library System. Elyse’s desire to excel via a career in database management combines her love for working in software with helping Read More

Julie Berrey

March 5, 2019
Julie Berrey has been a family trustee of the John and Wauna Harman Foundation since 2010 and served as the Foundation’s first Executive Director from 2011–2019. Throughout her tenure, Julie has focused on continuous organizational learning to expand the Foundation’s capacity to affect change through thoughtful philanthropy. She has shepherded the Foundation’s funding activity from simple annual check-writing into a Read More

Meredith Freeman

February 28, 2019
Meredith has extensive experience in the social impact sector and community development. She has worked with the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Citibank Global Community Relations and is currently the Director of Alignment and Impact Investing with the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation where she also served as the Foundation’s Interim Executive Director during an executive sabbatical. In Read More

Wayne Muller

February 15, 2019
Wayne Muller is an executive leadership mentor, therapist, minister, community advocate, consultant, public speaker, and bestselling author of several books. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, he has spent the last thirty-five years working with people suffering abuse, alcoholism, poverty, illness and loss.   Read More

Whitney Hosty

February 15, 2019
Whitney Hosty is a senior philanthropic advisor for the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, a leading provider of charitable giving services. With an asset base of more than $3 billion, the Community Foundation has ranked among the top one percent of community foundations in the country since 1999. Whitney oversees the Community Foundation’s donor education program and works closely with Read More

William C. Graustein

February 15, 2019
William Graustein‘s initial career was in the earth sciences. From 1981 to 1996 he was a research scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale studying the behavior of natural radioactive elements in the environment. In 1996 Mr. Graustein left scientific research to devote his time to work in the nonprofit sector. He led the reorganization of his Read More

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

February 15, 2019
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Read More