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Marisa Arellano
Marisa joins Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors as a member of the Advisory team working closely with the Grants Management team. She provides administrative and operational support to both teams. Prior to...
Heather Grady
...from the local to the global level. Heather has served as an adjunct professor at the China Global Philanthropy Institute and frequently publishes on philanthropy. Heather’s approach to this work...
Emmanuel Guerrero
...joined Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in July of 2013 as a Staff Assistant in the New York office. As part of the Operations Team, Emmanuel was responsible for general front desk...
Beware the Bearer of Big Gifts
Big bet philanthropy can make a huge impact – but often not without some initial criticism from the public. President and CEO Melissa Berman is quoted in this article from...
Assessing Systems Change: A Funders’ Workshop Report
As part of our Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems Initiative, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA) and the Initiative’s Steering Group members hosted a 3-day residential program in August to improve understanding...
Can Sustainable Development Be a Stimulus for Expanded Civil Society Space?
...a new blog post published by European Foundation Centre, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Vice President Heather Grady discusses this and the effect on SDG Philanthropy Platform pilot countries. Grady notes that...
OPTIX
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is partnering with the MetLife Foundation and Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA) to develop Optimizing Performance Through Improved Cross(X)-Sell (OPTIX), a program to provide micro-finance institutions and cooperatives...
Shifting Systems Initiative
...and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors launched the Shifting Systems Initiative in 2016. Over time, its Steering Group has included the Skoll Foundation, Ford Foundation, Porticus, Chandler Foundation, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation,...
Kristen Summers
...clients’ increasingly complex grantmaking needs. Before joining Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in 2023, Kristen worked as a Grants & Scholarships Manager at East Bay Community Foundation and as a Senior Grants...
Olga Tarasov
Olga leads Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ thought leadership efforts, developing original research, publications, and both internal and external programs to advance philanthropic growth and innovation, and accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of...
Yvette Diaz
Yvette Diaz is a Senior Advisor on the Sponsored Projects & Funds team at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Yvette has two decades of professional experience in the social justice and philanthropic...
Civil Marriage Collaborative
...most needed. Tim Sweeney, who co-founded and then advised the collaborative for many years and still shares its lessons with others exploring how philanthropy can shift complex systems over time,...
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We Need to Talk about Systems Change
...of funders and partners to discuss the role of philanthropy towards transformational change. The session in New Orleans gave us further clarity that the philanthropic sector does not have a...
Collaborative Giving
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors helps committed funders join forces around a common goal, significantly magnifying their collective impact. If you’re interested in collaborative giving, you can trust that we’ll handle the...
Colleen Muse
...their values and priorities for philanthropy, develops and implements giving strategies, researches nonprofits and manages grantee relationships, and facilitates coalitions and family meetings. With an extensive background in advocacy and...
Fiscal Sponsorship
For donors whose funding goals require a neutral but professionally managed fiscal home, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors offers comprehensive fiscal sponsorship services that can help you make an impact quickly and...
Key Reports
...philanthropy. These conversations included an invited group of funders an other partners who discussed, over three months in early 2022, the importance of shifting inequitable power dynamics in order to...
Meenakshi Abbi
...on a range of issues including education, diversity, improving philanthropy, impact investing, and other issues. She works with internal partners to ensure that each sponsored project has the operational resources...
Call to Action: PEAK Grantmaking Conference 2019
...York State Health Foundation, she had three main asks of philanthropy: 1. Diversify the funding landscape by looking at underfunded areas, 2. Take risks on projects that can make a...