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Lucy Bernholz, Ph.D.
Lucy Bernholz is a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Her blog, philanthropy2173.com has earned a Best Blog designation from Fast Company magazine. She is also a Fellow with the Hybrid Reality Institute and former Fellow of the New America Foundation.→
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Beth Kanter
Thought Leader and Trainer
Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. She is the co-author of The Networked Nonprofit, with Allison Fine and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with KD Paine.→
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Katya Smyth
Katya Smyth is the founder and CEO and of The Full Frame Initiative. She is a Research Affiliate with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) and was a Research Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.→
Rebecca Thomas
Vice President, The Nonprofit Finance Fund.→
Brian Walsh
Head of Corporate Impact for Liquidnet and Executive Director of Liquidnet For Good. Liquidnet is the New York-based global institutional trading network.→
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Darin McKeever
Darin McKeever is a deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation leading the foundation’s Charitable Sector work.→
Nick Deychakiwsky
Nick Deychakiwsky is a Program Officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation managing its Civil Society – United States and Global Philanthropy & Nonprofit
Sector program areas. He currently serves on the Board of the National Council of Nonprofits.→
Mari Kuraishi
Mari co-founded GlobalGiving with Dennis Whittle, and currently leads the organization. In 2011, Mari was named one of Foreign Policy's top 100 Global Thinkers for "crowdsourcing worldsaving." She currently serves as chair of the board of the Global Business School Network and on the board of Guidestar US.→
John Hecklinger
John Hecklinger is Chief Program Officer of GlobalGiving, leading the organization's effort to be an ever more effective platform for grassroots social entrepreneurs and NGO partners to connect directly with funding sources.→
Phil Buchanan
Phil Buchanan is president of CEP and was the first chief executive of the organization. Under his leadership, the organization has grown into the leading provider of comparative performance data to large foundations and other grantmaking institutions. Phil serves on the board of Great Nonprofits.
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Greg Ulrich
Greg Ulrich is Director, Advisory Services for Hope Consulting, with over ten years of strategy consulting experience. He is a Director of the Foundation for Sustainable Development and founder of a nonprofit foundation focused on children's education.→
Geoff Zimmerman
Geoff Zimmerman is Director of Continuous Improvement for The Strive Partnership at KnowledgeWorks. Strive is a coalition of postsecondary, K-12, business, nonprofit, and philanthropic organizations in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky aimed at increasing educational aspirations, achievement, and attainment of students throughout the region.→
Sunand Menon
Sunand Menon is President of New Media Insight and has spent the last decade incubating and scaling information ventures in a variety of industries such as Financial Services, Media, and Healthcare. He was the founder and Managing Director of Thomson Reuters Indices, and was responsible for the roll-out of Thomson Reuters Business Classification. Previously, he also served as Global Head of Business Development at Lipper where he spearheaded its growth across the Data, Information and Knowledge sectors.→
Cynthia Gibson
Cynthia M. Gibson, Ph.D., is an independent consultant for a wide range of national nonprofits and foundations who serves as a strategist, thought leader, and writer. You can find her on Twitter @Cingib.→
Marny Sumrall
Marny Sumrall is Executive Director of the YouthTruth Initiative, a national survey project of the The Center For Effective Philanthropy designed to gather comparative and actionable feedback from students about what is working and not working in their schools.→
Nicholas Van Praag
Nicholas van Praag leads Ground Truth, an initiative of Keystone Accountability that introduces tools to bridge the gap between listening to people affected by humanitarian crises and acting on what they say.→
David Bank
David Bank, a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter and author, is editor and CEO of Impact IQ. Most recently, Bank was vice president of Encore.org (formerly Civic Ventures) and an architect of the encore careers movement.→
Perla Ni
Perla Ni is CEO of GreatNonprofits, the leading developer of tools that allow people to find, review, and share information about nonprofits.→
Deborah Visser
Debby Visser is Director, Investments and Partnerships for Success Measures, a social enterprise at NeighborWorks America that assists local organizations, intermediaries, and their philanthropic and public sector partners to plan and conduct evaluations.→