Edgar Villanueva

February 15, 2019
Edgar Villanueva is an award winning author and globally-recognized expert in progressive philanthropic strategy. Edgar has managed several multi-million portfolios and has held leadership positions in various philanthropic organizations, including the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem, NC, the Marguerite Casey Foundation in Seattle, WA and the Schott Foundation for Public Education in New York City. In addition, Edgar Read More

Diane Miller

February 15, 2019
Diane Miller has served on the board of the John and Katherine Duda Foundation for 15 years. The family foundation focuses on health and human services, family support services, and education, primarily in the Florida region and other states where family members reside. She is an elected member of the Family Council — which oversees and manages family shareholder issues, Read More

Dianna Smiley

February 15, 2019
Dianna Smiley is a fundraising consultant. She has served as a development director, executive directive, grantmaker, donor education expert, and board member at organizations such as The Oregon Community Foundation, Reed College, SOLV, the City Club of Portland, the National Center for Family Philanthropy and the Tektronix Foundation, among others. Read More

Dion Rurik

February 15, 2019
Dion Rurik, born and raised in Pierce County, WA, is an active community volunteer.  A graduate of Stanford University, she taught high school before settling in Washington with her husband of 34 years to raise their four sons.  She has served on multiple local boards, and is currently active in four organizations including The Russell Family Foundation, where she serves Read More

The Durfee Foundation

February 15, 2019
The Durfee Foundation’s focus is on extraordinary people who are making a better Los Angeles. Durfee is a family foundation that seeks to adhere to the values of our founders, Dorothy Durfee Avery and R. Stanton Avery, by rewarding individual initiative and leadership. The majority of our grantmaking focuses on the Los Angeles region, where the foundation’s history lies, and Read More

Dennis Bidwell

February 15, 2019
Dennis Bidwell is principal of Bidwell Advisors, a Massachusetts consulting firm specializing in real estate gifts, serving non-profit clients around the country as well as private property owners. Prior to forming Bidwell Advisors, Bidwell was national land protection director at American Farmland Trust, and worked in Boston as vice president of Leggat McCall Advisors, as development officer at National Trust Read More

Diane Kaplan

February 15, 2019
Diane Kaplan was named president of the Anchorage-based Rasmuson Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the Pacific Northwest, in 2011. She began administering the Foundation in 1995. From 1994-2001, Diane’s consulting company provided management and government relations services to philanthropic and nonprofit organizations and Native corporations and tribes. She was previously president and chief executive officer of Alaska’s Read More

Debbie Berger

February 15, 2019
Debbie Berger is co-founder and board chair of Unbound Philanthropy, an international foundation dedicated to promoting the ideal of self-determination.  Unbound’s mission is to work collaboratively to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees while strengthening the host communities in which they live.  Prior to the establishment of Unbound Philanthropy, Ms. Berger worked for JP Morgan in New York, Tokyo Read More

Deborah Dauber

February 15, 2019
Deborah Dauber, PhD MPH is an experienced strategist with fifteen years of advising in private and public sectors.  Her areas of content expertise are health care and medical research, with a focus on organizations with a local impact.  She serves as a Director for the Dauber Foundation and a member of the Economic Development and Justice Giving Circle of the East Read More

David Nee

February 15, 2019
David Nee grew up in a housing project in South Boston, Massachusetts, in one of the poorest urban white neighborhoods in America. He became the first executive director of the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund in 1993. The Memorial Fund works collaboratively to improve education for Connecticut’s children by supporting school change, informing the public debate on educational issues, and Read More