Lois Mitchell

February 15, 2019
Lois Mitchell has extensive experience directing philanthropic initiatives, navigating strategic plans, and building key partnerships with cross-sector leadership. She guides multi-generational family, community, corporate, private, and operating foundations to build governance, processes, organizational culture, legacy, branded programs and facilitated retreats, forums and board sessions. As President of the Orfalea Foundations from 2000-2015, Mitchell led a 20+ member team through innovative collaborations, Read More

Lori Bartczak

February 15, 2019
As senior director of knowledge and content, Lori oversees the firm’s content and communications activities. She works with clients and the team to identify top-of-mind questions and issues, design original research and learning experiences to address them, and create and disseminate content that helps nonprofits and foundations in their work. While at Community Wealth Partners, Lori’s work has focused primarily Read More

Linda Katz

February 15, 2019
Linda Katz, a founder of Women Give San Diego, has served as a community leader and volunteer in the San Diego region for 30 years. Linda is the Founding President of The San Diego Women’s Foundation. She is a past Board Chair of LEAD San Diego, Planned Parenthood of San Diego & Riverside Counties, Senior Community Centers and Children’s Hospital Read More

Leah Gary

February 15, 2019
Leah Gary is the President and CEO of the William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. Previously she was the Vice President for Program and Evaluation at the Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Gary was vice president for Community Health, Workforce Development and the Northeast Ohio Trauma Foundation at the Center for Health Affairs where Read More

Lee Draper

February 15, 2019
Lee Draper is president at Draper Consulting Group. She has held multiple management positions at various foundations, such as the Ahmanson Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation and the California Community Foundation.  Read More

Leonor Alfonso

February 15, 2019
Leonor Alfonso is senior program specialist at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. GEO is a diverse community of more than 450 grantmakers working to reshape the way philanthropy operates. We are committed to advancing smarter grantmaking practices that enable nonprofits to grow stronger and achieve better results. Leonor plays a key role in GEO’s publishing and peer learning work, and leads other Read More

Leslie Pine

February 15, 2019
Leslie Pine has been the principal architect of TPI’s creative approach to program design and strategy, managing TPI’s program staff in the research, design, implementation, and evaluation of a wide range of innovative philanthropic strategies and initiatives. This work has transformed the concept of strategic philanthropy into high-impact philanthropic action, helping funders and corporations develop new and more effective approaches Read More

Larry Parachini

February 15, 2019
Larry Parachini is a consultant based in the Washington, D.C. metro area, and author of the Community Organizing Toolbox. Read More

Laura Fink

February 15, 2019
Laura Fink is the Director of Development & Professional Advisor Relations at the Akron Community Foundation. Laura meets with potential fundholders to discover their philanthropic passions and show them how they can do great things through the community foundation. She also leads the Professional Advisor Council made up of wealth managers, trust officers, attorneys and accountants to create giving opportunities that are simple and Read More

Laura McCargar

February 15, 2019
Laura McCargar was appointed as President of the Perrin Family Foundation (PFF) in June of 2016. Laura joined the foundation in 2011 as a Program Officer, where she played a central role in designing the foundation’s youth-led social change grantmaking and the oversaw the development and implementation of capacity building initiatives designed to strengthen, promote and expand youth organizing across Read More