1719 Results for “community”

Ira S. Hirschfield
May 14, 2014
Since 1992, Ira Hirschfield has worked to create a more just and compassionate society as President and a Trustee of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, a family foundation based in San Francisco, California. Ira leads the Fund’s work in four key program areas: supporting equal opportunities for immigrants to become active citizens; advancing full equality for gay and Read More

Lisa Graustein
May 14, 2014
Lisa Graustein (she/her) is the Board Chair of the W.C. Graustein Memorial Fund, whose mission is to achieve equity in education by working with those affected and inspiring all to end racism and poverty. As such, Lisa is working to dismantle the systems of oppression that have traditionally existed within grant-making to create new forms of wealth redistribution and social justice. Lisa Read More

Jason Baron
May 13, 2014
Jason Baron is the creator and portfolio manager for the Socially Innovative Investing (S2I) strategy in the investments group within U.S. Trust. Prior to joining U.S. Trust, Jason served as the group head for the community investing team at Lehman Brothers where he was responsible for the design and implementation of socially responsible and mission-oriented investment products. He began his Read More
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How to Apply for a Discretionary Grant (Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Foundation)
March 4, 2014 | The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation
This FAQ page describes The Knott Foundation’s guidelines around discretionary grantmaking, and provides a good example for other family foundations. The Knott Foundation provides a limited number of Discretionary Grants on a rolling basis throughout the year. These grants, ranging between $500 to $2,500, are designed to increase the Foundation’s grantmaking options as well as its responsiveness to community needs. Read More

Alicia Schuyler Oberman
March 3, 2014
Alicia Schuyler Oberman serves as the Foundation Director of the Jack Miller Family Foundation (for which she is also a Board member) and its related philanthropic fund, the Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund. As Foundation Director, Alicia directs all of the foundation’s programs and operations and serves as the foundation’s liaison to its non-profit partners and the community. Prior to Read More

Lauren Hasey Maher
March 3, 2014
Lauren Hasey Maher (@lhasey) previously served as program manager at the National Center for Family Philanthropy. In this role, she worked to provide families and next gen donors with timely tools and information to maximize the impact on their communities. Lauren has been a successful nonprofit professional for more than seven years and holds an MA in Philanthropy from Indiana University’s Center Read More

T.R. Meighen Family Foundation
January 19, 2014
The T.R. Meighen Family Foundation is a private charitable foundation that was established by letters patent in April 1969 with a gift from the founder, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt Meighen. The head office is located in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and the administrative office is in Toronto, Ontario. Over the past 41 years, the foundation has granted close to $20 million Read More

Sontag Foundation
January 19, 2014
The Sontag Foundation was started by a family from Northeast Florida who wanted to make a difference in the lives of those affected by brain cancer and rheumatoid arthritis through the power of medical research. The family also desires to change the lives of individuals in their home community through funding programs which make a significant impact on the self-sufficiency Read More

Sally Leiderman
January 19, 2014
Sally Leiderman established the Center for Assessment and Policy Development in 1988. Sally Leiderman expertise spans traditional and non-traditional evaluation design and implementation, with a focus on helping to build the evaluation capacity of the groups whose work she is evaluating; leadership development, anti-racism work and system change, including transformation of large public system, school districts and schools and community initiatives. In Read More

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