philanthropy

CARESTAR Foundation

• Designed and facilitated a strategic planning process to establish the purpose, goals, and strategies of a new foundation focused on improving California’s emergency response system using a race equity lens. 

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Community Foundation Sonoma County

• Conducted extensive research on disaster philanthropy and local community needs to help inform the development and administration of a multi-million dollar fund to help low-income communities in Sonoma County recover and rebuild after the devastating wildfires in October 2017.

 

Disability Communications Fund

• Built capacity of a new foundation to streamline grantmaking processes, strengthen Board capacity and focus funding priorities for greater impact.

 

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations

• Conducted extensive research (literature review and key informant interviews) on funder collaborations and wrote a thorough paper to inform a future publication and national conference on the topic.

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Marin Community Foundation

• Informed the strategic plan for the Health and Aging grant portfolios.

 

Metta Fund

• Designed and facilitated a process to support a funder collaborative focused on addressing social isolation among economically insecure older people living in San Francisco.

• Synthesized previous assessments, key decisions, and current grant making processes into one document to support the organization’s evolution and decision-making.

 

Pacific Foundation Services

• Facilitated a significant refresh of grant funding priorities for well-established family foundation.

 

Sand Hill Foundation

• Facilitated an evolutionary process that resulted in a Theory of Change which guides the foundation’s funding decisions related to adolescent mental health