Jennifer Touchet

February 15, 2019
Jennifer Touchet is the Vice President of Personal & Family Philanthropy at the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Since 2013, she has led the Next Gen Donor Institute and Alumni Network for 25–40 year old emerging philanthropic leaders. Most recently, the foundation’s Center for Family Philanthropy began donor initiatives that include youth. She specializes in multi-generational giving, family dynamics and is Read More

Jeffrey M. Glebocki

February 15, 2019
Jeffrey M. Glebocki is nationally-recognized for his extensive service in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with specific expertise in family and private foundations.  An accomplished grantmaker, executive and advisor, Jeff’s experience is deeply rooted in philanthropic practice, education grantmaking (K-12 & higher education), civic affairs, community and economic development, youth issues and nonprofit management. As founder and CEO of Strategy Read More

Jay Ruderman

February 15, 2019
Jay Ruderman is president of the Ruderman Family Foundation, which focuses on the inclusion of people with disabilities in Israel and the Jewish community worldwide; and educating Israeli leaders on the American Jewish community. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Funders Network and is a member of the JDC Executive Committee. Jay began his career as Read More

Jed Emerson

February 15, 2019
Jed Emerson is senior advisor at Gary Community Investment Company. He was the founding executive director of REDF and Larkin Youth Street Services. Read More

Jared Heddinger

February 15, 2019
Jared Heddinger is originally from Battle Creek Michigan. From 2012 to 2014 he began his philanthropy journey by serving on the Battle Creek Community Foundation’s (BCCF) Youth Alliance Committee (YAC). He then joined Michigan Community Foundation’s Youth Project MCFYP in 2013 to plan a yearly summer conference for youth grant makers on YAC’s across the state of Michigan. In 2014, Read More

Jason Franklin

February 15, 2019
Jason Franklin was appointed in June 2015 as the W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy, to which he brings a background in grantmaking and donor education, nonprofit strategy and leadership, social entrepreneurship, and community organizing and advocacy. As holder of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on community philanthropy, he engages in research, teaching, service, Read More

Ambassador James A. Joseph

February 15, 2019
Ambassador James A. Joseph is President Emeritus of the Council on Foundations where he served as Chief Executive Officer from 1982–1995. He is also Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Before joining the faculty of the Sanford School in 2000, he served in senior executive or advisory positions Read More

Jan Masaoka

February 15, 2019
Jan Masaoka is the CEO at the California Association of Nonprofits. Jan is also editor in chief of Blue Avocado, an e-magazine for the nonprofit community. Jan was executive director of CompassPoint for 14 years, a consulting and training firm for nonprofits based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and which is a Blue Avocado charter partner.   Read More

Irene Siragusa

February 15, 2019
Irene Siragusa Phelps was elected President of the Siragusa Foundation in 2002, after serving as the first Executive Director since 1997. She graduated from Tulane University in 1975 with a B.A. in Philosophy and spent eighteen years in Los Angeles working in the entertainment and restaurant industries. For the past sixteen years, she has been a family representative of the Read More

Iris Brilliant

February 15, 2019
Iris Brilliant (she/her) is a money coach based in Minneapolis, MN. Her life mission is to support people with wealth to move money to social justice, and to transform how we relate to money, family and community along the way. Iris first became passionate about moving money to support social justice when she unexpectedly inherited wealth at age 22. Already Read More