Regina McGraw

February 15, 2019
Regina McGraw is the Executive Director of the Wieboldt Foundation, a family foundation established in 1921. It currently funds multi-issue, grassroots community organizing in Chicago. She formerly worked with Travelers and Immigrants Aid, a social service agency. While there she helped to create the Midwest Immigrants Rights Project, which recruits pro bono attorneys for individuals applying for political asylum, and Read More

Race Forward: the Center for Racial Justice Innovation

February 15, 2019
Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation united with Center for Social Inclusion in 2017 to become the new Race Forward. Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Founded in 2002, CSI catalyzes community, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural Read More

Peter Pennekamp

February 15, 2019
Peter Pennekamp has explored and worked to advance an inclusive American experience in his career in the arts, radio and philanthropy and is a founder of Community Democracy Workshop. He has held prior positions at the National Endowment for the Arts, National Public Radio, the Humboldt Area Foundation and Humboldt State University. His favorite efforts for change before the Community Read More

Peter Dunn

February 15, 2019
Peter Dunn became the third President and CEO of the Central New York Community Foundation in Syracuse, NY in 2008. The oldest and largest philanthropic foundation in the Central New York region, the Community Foundation currently administers more than 600 component charitable funds with a collective value exceeding $150 million. In its most recent fiscal year, the Community Foundation distributed Read More

Peter Laugharn

February 15, 2019
Peter Laugharn (pronounced LAW-harn) serves as president and chief executive officer of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Laugharn is a passionate leader with 25 years of foundation and nonprofit experience internationally, with a focus on improving the well-being of vulnerable children. He was executive director of the Firelight Foundation from 2008 to 2014. Firelight identifies, funds, and supports promising African Read More

Paul Connolly

February 15, 2019
Paul Connolly is a seasoned leader and advisor to philanthropies and nonprofits. At Bessemer Trust, he is responsible for directing the philanthropic advisory services department and working closely with clients to help develop and pursue their philanthropic interests, define their grantmaking strategies, and achieve their social impact goals. At TCC Group, his clients included the James Irvine Foundation, Habitat for Read More

Paul Shoemaker

February 15, 2019
Paul Shoemaker formerly served as SVP Seattle’s Executive Connector.  Anyone who’s met him knows why.  If you’re out to change the world, he’s there to connect you to the people and organizations on that same journey.  (He’s also the boss, so he does a little executive directing as well.) Paul is committed to work in the community, serving on the Read More

Pam David

February 15, 2019
Pam David, former long-time Executive Director of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, is now Northern California Grantmakers’  inaugural senior fellow. She will continue to serve as a Social Impact Fellow at the Haas School of Business, Institute of Social Sector Leadership, at the University of California, Berkeley, and  has launched a private consulting practice, providing advice to philanthropy, government, Read More

Pamela David

February 15, 2019
Pamela David is the Executive Director of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund (www.haassr.org), one of San Francisco’s most respected private foundations. Working within four primary areas of focus (public education, economic security, the arts, and Jewish life), the Fund’s mission is to help build a healthy, just, and vibrant society in which people feel connected to and responsible for Read More

Pamela Howell-Beach

February 15, 2019
Pam Howell-Beach began in philanthropy in 1987 as the first full-time Program Officer for the Toledo Community Foundation and later served as President from 1990 to 2003. In 2004, Ms. Howell-Beach became the first full-time CEO for the Stranahan Foundation in Toledo, Ohio. Her leadership roles include the Ohio Grantmakers Forum, where she has served in various capacities including Chair of the Read More