Stephen B. Heintz is president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, an international foundation advancing social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Before joining the foundation, he was founding president of Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action, a public policy research and advocacy organization working to enhance the vitality of American democracy and promote more broadly shared economic prosperity. Mr. Heintz was previously executive vice president and COO of the EastWest Institute, where he worked on issues of economic reform, civil society development, and international security. Mr. Heintz devoted the first 15 years of his career to government service in the State of Connecticut, where he served as commissioner of social welfare and commissioner of economic development. Articles written by Mr. Heintz have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal Europe. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale University.
VICE CHAIR
Ralph B. Everett is the president and CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a leading think tank that focuses on African-American issues. Prior to this position, he spent 17 years as a specialist in telecommunications and transportation policy at the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, where he became its first African-American partner. He had previously worked in the U.S. Senate for more than a decade, including serving as staff director and chief counsel of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. He is currently on the boards Cumulus Media, the Shenandoah Life Insurance Company, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, the Virginia Science Museum, and the Black Leadership Forum. His past service includes being a member of the boards of the National Urban League, the Center for National Policy, and the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Mr. Everett is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College and has a J.D. from Duke University.
TREASURER
Kelvin H. Taketa is president and
CEO of the Hawai'i Community Foundation. Since his appointment in 1998,
the Foundation has become a leader in facilitating charitable
investments in Hawai'i, serving as a resource for philanthropy, and
building partnerships and grantmaking programs that have demonstrable
impact for the community. Last year, the foundation invested nearly $38
million in grants and contracts into the community, and has earned
national recognition for its substantive commitment to strengthening the
leadership and organizational capacities of nonprofits. Mr. Taketa has
dedicated 30 years of service to the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining
the foundation, he was vice president and executive director for the
Asia/Pacific Region of The Nature Conservancy. Mr. Taketa’s current
board service includes, Hawaiian Electric Industries, Hawaiian Electric
Company, Independent Sector and Civic Ventures. Born and raised in
Hawai‘i, he graduated from Colorado College and received his JD from
University of California, Berkeley's Hastings College of Law.
SECRETARY
Lorie A. Slutsky has been the president of The New York Community Trust since 1990. She began her career at The Trust as a grantmaker in 1977, and was named executive vice president in 1987. Ms. Slutsky served for nine years as a trustee and chairman of Colgate University's budget committee and then served for seven years as a trustee of The New School. She is a former board chairman of the Council on Foundations and vice chairman of The Foundation Center. Ms. Slutsky is a director of Alliance Capital Management, AXA-Equitable Financial, and a board member of BoardSource. She also served as a co-convener of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector.
AT-LARGE MEMBER, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Irene Hirano Inouye is president of the U.S.-Japan Council, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., and dedicated to building people-to-people relationships between the United States and Japan. Ms. Inouye has more than 35 years of experience in nonprofit administration, community education, and public affairs with culturally diverse communities nationwide. She is the former president and founding CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. Ms. Inouye is chair of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees and immediate past chair of the Kresge Foundation. She is a past chair of the American Association of Museums, and serves on the boards of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Washington Center, and the National Children’s Museum. Ms. Inouye holds a bachelor's and a master's in public administration from the University of Southern California.
BOARD MEMBERS
Ellen S. Alberding is president of the Joyce Foundation, which has assets of $975 million and makes grants of approximately $50 million a year on projects to improve the quality of life in the Great Lakes region. Previously she served as program officer and director of portfolio investments. In those capacities she directed the foundation’s Culture Program, worked in the Education Program, and managed the foundation’s investments. She holds an honors degree in English from Brown University and a master of management in finance and marketing from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. In 2004, she served as co-convener of the Governance Committee for the national Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, and as a member of the Public Trust Task Force for the Donors Forum of Chicago.
Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Seam Innovation. Deborah formerly served as the president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin Counties from 2004-2012. Known for her dynamic leadership style, and with over 15 years of executive management experience spanning the non-profit, philanthropic, public, and private sectors, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has a track record of catalyzing change within organizations and leading them toward greater innovation, accountability, and responsiveness. Prior to joining Goodwill, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez was vice president of Silicon Valley’s Omidyar Foundation, the Director of San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families (DCYF), the founder and CEO of San Francisco’s Every Child Can Learn Foundation, executive director of intergovernmental and school-linked services at the San Francisco Unified School District, and assistant director for budget and planning for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College.
Barbara R. Arnwine is executive director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Since 1989, she has become internationally renowned for contributions on critical justice issues, including the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991. A graduate of Scripps College and Duke University School of Law, she continues to champion civil rights issues nationally and internationally in the areas of housing, fair lending, community development, employment, voting, education, environmental justice and more. A prominent leader in the civil rights community, Barbara also continues to fight for the preservation of affirmative action and diversity programs. Under her leadership, the Lawyers' Committee continues to participate in monitoring treaty compliance and responding to reports written by the United States regarding the requirements of both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination following the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review, which last occurred in November 2010.
Susan V. Berresford is the former president of the Ford Foundation, a position she held from 1996 to 2007. One of the largest foundations in the world, Ford supports programs around the globe that strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. Ms. Berresford joined the foundation’s Division of National Affairs in 1970, and later became officer in charge of its women’s programs and then vice president for the U.S. and International Affairs programs. After serving as vice president in charge of worldwide programming, she was named executive vice president and chief operating officer of the foundation, a position she held until she became president. Prior to joining Ford, Ms. Berresford was a program officer for the Neighborhood Youth Corp and worked for the Manpower Career Development Agency, where she was responsible for the evaluation of training, education, and work programs. She attended Vassar College and then studied American history at Radcliffe College, from which she graduated cum laude. She is a board member and chair of United States Artists, Inc. and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. Ms. Berresford is also the convener of the US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin.
Robert W. Briggs is the chairman emeritus and partner of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, a law firm with offices in Ohio and Florida. He became a Knight Foundation trustee in June 2002, was elected vice chair on September 20, 2005 and chair elect in March of 2009. Mr. Briggs began his law career as a staff judge advocate for the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps. He has been with Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs since 1971, where he specializes in corporate, business, and foundation matters. He also serves on the board of directors of First Merit Corporation and several other for-profit companies. An active member of the Akron community who has served with numerous organizations over the years, Briggs is currently involved with a number of regional organizations. He is a board member and co-chair of One Community, and board chair of The National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation. He was chair of the Fund For Our Economic Future, which is an unprecedented collaboration created by more than 80 funders in Northeast Ohio to focus on regional economic development.
Kyle Caldwell is the Program Director of the Pathways out of Poverty program at the Mott Foundation, a program that identifies, tests, and helps sustain pathways out of poverty for low-income people and communities. From 2007-2012, Kyle served as the President and CEO of the Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) a statewide nonprofit which serves nonprofits to advance their missions. Kyle has worked in the private and public sectors including serving both Michigan Governors Engler and Granholm as the Executive Director of the Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC). Prior to his time at the MCSC, Kyle was Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Olivet College. Kyle serves on a number of boards and committees including: National Council of Nonprofits; Independent Sector; Points of Light Institute; Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network Leadership Council; Council of Michigan Foundations Public Policy Committee; Johns Hopkins Listening Post Steering Committee; Governor's Foundation Liaison Advisory Committee; Johnson Center for Philanthropy Leadership Council; Michigan Association of United Ways and Starr Commonwealth. Kyle holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Western Michigan University where he studied organizational communication. Both Lansing Community College and Western Michigan University’s School of Communication have recognized Kyle with Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Julie Floch is a partner in the Not-For-Profit Services Group at Eisner, LLP and is responsible for coordinating the planning and administration of engagements in the firm’s not-for-profit practice. She is experienced with the application of federal and state tax laws, as they relate to not-for-profit entities, as well as with the requirements of federal regulations relating to clients who receive government funding. Julie is an advisor to the Frances L. & Edwin L. Cummings Memorial Fund and serves on the Audit Committee of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (Shriver Center). In addition, she is a founding member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance and served on the Internal Revenue Service’s Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities, a role which included providing input for the “redesigned” federal Form 990. She has a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton, with graduate studies at Baruch College/CUNY.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a national leader in transforming America’s health systems so people live healthier lives and receive the health care they need. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey was a leader in academic medicine, government service and her medical specialty of geriatrics before joining RWJF in 2001 as senior vice president and director of the health care group. Previously, at the University of Pennsylvania, she was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of medicine and health care systems and director of Penn’s Institute on Aging. In Washington, D.C., she was deputy administrator of what is now the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of The National Academies. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston; was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania; and trained in Geriatrics at Penn.
Steven J. McCormick is president and a trustee, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Steve was previously the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, where he served in that capacity from 2001-2007. As president, he led the organization into becoming a truly global enterprise, operating in 30 countries as well as every state in the U.S. During his tenure, he oversaw an operating budget of more than $500 million, and a highly distributed staff of more than 3,000. Under Steve’s leadership, revenues from all sources increased significantly, hitting an all-time high of $1.2 billion in 2006. Steve serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, the Board of Sustainable Conservation, and the Board of the California Game Wardens Association Foundation. He has also served on the U.C. Berkeley College of Natural Resources Advisory Board. Steve is the recipient of the Chevron Conservation Award, the Edmund G. Brown Award for Environmental and Economic Balance, the John Pritzker Conservation Award, and the California League of Conservation Voter's Conservation Leadership Award. Steve has a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Berkeley (1973), where he graduated with honors, and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law (1976).
Bernard “Bernie” J. Milano is president and trustee of the KPMG Foundation and president and trustee of the KPMG Disaster Relief Fund. He is also president and a board member of The PhD Project, a diversity initiative that has more than tripled the number of minority business professors in U.S. colleges and universities. Mr. Milano’s involvements span community, education, and religion. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Points of Light Foundation, serves on their Finance Committee, and chairs the Audit Committee. He is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Students in Free Enterprise and is chair of the Rules Committee. For the Business Civic Leadership Center he serves on their Board of Directors and for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, he is a member of the Education, Employment and Training Committee. Mr. Milano was a member of the Board of Directors of Campus Compact from 1998-2004, and started another term July 1, 2010. Relating to education, he has served on numerous boards including AACSB International and the American Accounting Association. He is past president of Beta Alpha Psi and currently sits on the Beta Gamma Sigma Board of Governors. He chairs business school advisory boards at Ramapo College of New Jersey and North Carolina A&T. He holds honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Kent State University and North Carolina A&T. His religion engagement includes Co-Warden (co-chair) of his parish board and he is financial advisor and member of the finance and audit committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, N. J.
Neil Nicoll is president and CEO, YMCA of the USA. In May 2006 he became the thirteenth person to lead the 165 year old Y movement in the United States following 14 years as president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Seattle. He previously was the president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Worcester (Mass.) for 12 years. The nation’s 2,686 Ys respond to critical social needs by drawing on their collective strength as one of the country’s largest nonprofit community service organizations. Today’s Ys serve 10,000 communities and 21 million children and adults. Neil earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Eastern Nazarene College, a master’s degree in education from Springfield College, and management certificates from Clark University, and the Harvard Business School. Neil currently serves as a Trustee of Springfield College, Trustee of America’s Promise Alliance and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he is a member of Independent Sector and the Leadership 18. He is a past board member of the National Assembly.
Mariam C. Noland became the first president of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, based in Detroit, in 1985. Ms. Noland has more than 30 years experience administering community foundations, including the Cleveland Foundation, where she served as program officer and secretary/treasurer, and the Saint Paul Foundation, where she was vice president. Prior to joining the foundation field, she was on staff at Davidson and Baldwin-Wallace colleges. Ms. Noland is currently a member of the board of trustees of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, and is vice chair of the board of the Henry Ford Health System. She earned an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a B.S. from Case Western Reserve University.
Michael Piraino is chief executive officer of National CASA, a network of more than 59,000 volunteers that serve 243,000 abused and neglected children through more than 900 program offices nationwide. Mr. Piraino has been active in domestic and international child advocacy since 1977, primarily in the areas of child poverty, maltreatment, and foster care. He has also taught law school classes and was an associate research scientist at the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University. Mr. Piraino also serves on several national and local boards related to accountability and ethics for both nonprofit organizations and government agencies. He holds law degrees from both Cornell Law School and Oxford University, and while practicing law, provided pro bono guardian ad litem representation to foster children.
Wendy D. Puriefoy is the Director of Education at the Barr Foundation and has been a leader in public school reform, civil society engagement, and philanthropy for more than 25 years. She has written and spoken extensively on these issues, particularly with regard to equity in education and opportunity for poor and disadvantaged children. From 2001 to 2012, Wendy served as the President of the Public Education Network (PEN), which was the nation’s largest network of community-based public school reform organizations. Ms. Puriefoy became deeply involved in school reform in the 1970s, when she served in Judge Arthur Garritty’s office as a special monitor of the court-ordered desegregation plan for Boston’s public schools. In 1979, she became the executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Boston Foundation, a community foundation with an endowment of over $750 million supporting public health/welfare, educational, cultural, environmental, and housing programs in Boston. Ms. Puriefoy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from William Smith College and holds three Master of Arts degrees in African American Studies, American Studies, and American colonial history from Boston University.
Paul Schmitz founded Public Allies Milwaukee in 1993, and has served as the national CEO of Public Allies since 2000. Public Allies’ mission is to advance new leadership to strengthen communities, nonprofits, and civic participation. Mr. Schmitz writes and speaks often on topics of national service, civic engagement, community building, diversity, nonprofit workforce development, and social entrepreneurship. He currently serves as chair of the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition; co-chair of Voices for National Service; a board member of Our Good Works; a blogger on leadership for The Washington Post; and a faculty member of The Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University. As a private volunteer, Mr. Schmitz co-chaired the Obama campaign’s civic engagement policy group and was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Team. Paul graduated phi beta kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1994 with a degree in political science, and received UWM's “Graduate of the Last Decade” alumni award. He was also a Next Generation Leadership Fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation.
Rev. Larry Snyder took the helm of Catholic Charities USA in February 2005, after serving for more than five years as executive director of Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis -- the largest private provider of social services in the Twin Cities. Father Snyder joined the agency in 1991, as assistant to the director, was named associate director in 1992, and became its leader in 1999. Father Snyder was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in 1988, and served as associate pastor at Epiphany Catholic Church in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, from 1988 to 1990, and Nativity of Mary Church in Bloomington, Minnesota, from 1990 to 1991. Father Snyder earned a bachelor’s degree from Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, Illinois. He also holds a master’s degree in divinity from the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, and a M.P.A. from Hamline University in St. Paul.
Roberto Suro holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He is also director of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, an interdisicplinary university research center exploring the challenges and opportunities of demographic diversity in the 21st century global city. He is a veteran print journalist with extensive experience in foreign, domestic and Washington coverage as a senior staffer for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Prior to joining the School of Journalism faculty in August 2007, he was director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization in Washington D.C. which he founded in 2001 as a project of the Annenberg School for Communication. Suro’s journalistic career began in 1974 at the City News Bureau of Chicago as a police reporter, and after tours at the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune he joined TIME Magazine, where he worked as a correspondent in the Chicago, Washington, Beirut and Rome bureaus. In 1985 he started at The New York Times with postings as bureau chief in Rome and Houston. After a year as an Alicia Patterson Fellow, Suro was hired at The Washington Post as a staff writer on the national desk, eventually covering a variety of beats including the Justice Department and the Pentagon and serving as deputy national editor. Coverage of Latinos and, more broadly, immigration to the United States have been continuous themes throughout Suro’s career. He is author of Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America (Vintage, 1999), as well as numerous reports, articles and other publications on these subjects. He continues to conduct research and write on the Hispanic population through grant-funded projects and as a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution.
Richard “Rick” B. Williams, a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, serves as Senior Advisor to the American College Indian Fund. He formerly served as the Fun’s President and Chief Executive Officer from October 1997 to 2012. The Fund, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Denver, Colorado, raises private support for scholarships, endowments, programs and public awareness on behalf of more than 30 U.S. tribal colleges and universities. Prior to joining The Fund, Mr. Williams served both as the Director of the Student Academic Service Center and the Director of Minority Student Affairs at the University of Colorado. Additionally, he also has served as the Director of American Indian Upward Bound, a program designed to provide educational opportunities to Indian youth. Currently, he serves as a board member for The White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU), Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP), and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Endowment Board. In April 2005, the Native American Resource Group and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's Department of Anthropology honored Mr. Williams with the Native Educator of the Year award. In October 2005, the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) honored Mr. Williams with the prestigious Educator of the Year award. In 1975, Mr. Williams became the first American Indian student to graduate with a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received an M.A. in Education Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Wyoming in 1987.
