Melissa A. Berman

President and CEO
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
New York, NY

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Melissa is president and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc., an innovative nonprofit philanthropy service founded by the Rockefeller family. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ mission is to help donors create thoughtful, effective philanthropy throughout the world. The organization manages foundations and trusts; structures giving programs and major gifts; offers a charitable giving fund; and coordinates donor collaboratives. In 2008, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors managed or facilitated $175 million in giving to 30 countries. It has offices in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

A frequent speaker, Ms. Berman has been profiled in the New York Times and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Her ideas and views are featured regularly in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Financial Times, USA Today, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has been interviewed on the Today Show, NPR, CNBC-TV, and Bloomberg. She has written articles for the New York Times, Across the Board, the Miami Herald, and other national publications.

Ms. Berman has led Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors since January 2001. Previously, she served as senior vice president, research and program development, at the Conference Board, a nonprofit, independent business research organization. She oversaw all research and publications on management practices, including global corporate citizenship and governance.

Ms. Berman is a director of City Harvest, the Foundation Center, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. She is adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Business School. She serves as a member of the national advisory panel for New Ventures in Philanthropy and as a judge for the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Citizenship, a presidential award.

Ms. Berman holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Patrick Collins

Chief Information Officer and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Menlo Park, CA

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Patrick Collins is the chief information officer and director of grants administration at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. In these capacities, he is responsible for all aspects of information technology and for ensuring the efficient flow of the foundation's grantmaking processes. He also manages the foundation's videoconferencing grants program, which aims to reduce travel for foundation employees and grantees, and a small portfolio of other grants that pertain to information technology.

Before joining the Hewlett Foundation in 2005, Mr. Collins was the director of information and communication services at the University of California Office of the President. There he directed the delivery of information technology services to 2,200 employees at UC's headquarters and the negotiation and management of $200 million in annual information technology purchases for the UC system. Earlier in his career, Mr. Collins directed two academic data centers—the California Census Research Data Center at UCLA and UC Berkeley, and the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University. He also has contributed to scholarly publications as a data analyst, statistician, and author.

Mr. Collins serves on the Board of Directors of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and on advisory committees for TechSoup, Guidestar, and the Council on Foundations.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University, and a Master of business administration degree from University of California Berkeley's Haas School of Business, both with honors.

M. Christine DeVita, Chairman

President
The Wallace Foundation
New York, NY

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M. Christine DeVita is president of The Wallace Foundation, an independent national foundation committed to supporting and sharing effective ideas and practices that expand opportunities for learning and enrichment for all people. The foundation is the philanthropic legacy of DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace, the founders of the Reader’s Digest Association.

DeVita joined the foundation in 1987 and has been president since 1989. Under her leadership, The Wallace Foundation has evolved from a collection of small family funds into one of the nation’s 40 largest foundations with assets of more than $1 billion.

The foundation applies a unified strategy to all of its work, combining program, evaluation, and communication expertise in an effort to deliver social benefits beyond the recipients of direct grants through the development and sharing of knowledge. Its work was profiled in Creative Philanthropy, by Helmut K. Anheier and Diana Leat.

Today, the foundation focuses on three major areas:

• Working with states and school districts to strengthen educational leadership in ways that significantly improve student achievement.
• Helping selected cities make high-quality out-of-school learning opportunities available to many more children.
• Making the arts a part of many more people’s lives by working with arts organizations, schools and others to build both present and future arts audiences.

DeVita has spoken about innovative philanthropic practices in venues including the Council on Foundations, Grantmakers for Education, the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, the New England Museum Association, Duke University, and Bates College. She is chair of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Center, on the executive committee of the Business-Higher Education Forum, and a member of the visiting committee of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Born in New York, DeVita earned her B.A. degree magna cum laude from Queens College of the City University of New York and her J.D. degree cum laude from Fordham University School of Law where she was an editor of the Fordham Law Review. She is admitted to practice in New York and before the United States Supreme Court.

P. Russell Hardin

President
The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
Atlanta, GA

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Russ Hardin is president of the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, and Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation. The Woodruff Foundation is an independent private foundation established by Robert W. Woodruff, longtime chairman of the Coca-Cola Company. The Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, and Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation were established by members of the Joseph B. Whitehead family, one of the two original Coca-Cola bottlers. Although each is governed by a separate charter and self-perpetuating Board of Trustees, the foundations share an office and administrative staff. The Woodruff and Whitehead Foundations support a wide range of charitable activity, principally in Georgia. Identified program interests include education, health, human welfare, the environment, community and economic development, philanthropy and volunteerism, and the arts. In addition, the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation makes scholarship grants for women at colleges and universities in a nine-state region.

Mr. Hardin joined the foundations' staff as secretary in 1988. He became treasurer in 1989, vice president in 1994, and president in 2006. Prior to joining the foundations' staff, Mr. Hardin practiced law with the Atlanta firm of King & Spalding and was associated with the Robinson-Humphrey Company. He also taught a course at the University of Georgia School of Law. Mr. Hardin received his B.A. degree with high distinction from the University of Virginia in 1979, and his J.D. degree with honors from Duke University School of Law in 1982.

Mr. Hardin serves as a director of Gwinnett Industries, Inc. and the Commerce Club in Atlanta. He served as a trustee of the Southeastern Council of Foundations for seven years and as its chairman from 1999 to 2001.

Michael F. Hayes

Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Stamford, CT

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Michael Hayes is a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP focusing on alternative investment companies and highly endowed tax-exempt organizations. He has over 17 years of experience conducting, supervising, and managing audit engagements for a myriad of entities. Many of his clients are global organizations with branch offices in Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. Mr. Hayes has worked closely with a number of these overseas offices with such items as valuation, financial reporting, internal controls, and governance structure. He is a frequent speaker at various events, as well as a recognized subject matter expert within the firm regarding highly-endowed organizations. Most recently, he presented “Sarbanes Oxley and Governance in the Tax-Exempt Community” to a national audience. He is a frequent presenter of other hot topics such as investment valuation and pricing to a number of groups including a round-table group of private foundations in NYC. He is also an advisor to the Audit Committee of Mercy College.

Clients Mr. Hayes has served include: Columbia University, Ford Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Mary Flagler Charitable Trust, Lucent Foundation, Fairfield County Community Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, and Jewish Communal Fund. In addition, he has served alternative investment companies such as Angelo, Gordon & Co., Guggenheim Partners, Corbin Capital, Brencourt Capital Advisors, JH Whitney Advisors, and Aurelius Capital Partners.

Mr. Hayes holds a B.S. degree in public accounting from Mercy College. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Nancy S. Kami

Executive Director
Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund
San Francisco, CA

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Nancy Kami is the executive director of the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund, a private philanthropic foundation in San Francisco. Prior to joining the Fund in 1997, she served as assistant head and development director for The Hamlin School for 10 years. Nancy began her fundraising career at Brown University and later worked on the capital campaign for KQED Public Broadcasting in San Francisco. She holds an A.B. degree from Brown University and a master’s in counseling psychology. Nancy is on the Advisory Board of the Foundation Center’s San Francisco office.

George Penick

Head of School
St. Andrew's Episcopal School
Jackson, MS

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George Penick assumed the leadership of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Jackson, Mississippi, beginning in the 2008-09 school year. St. Andrew’s is a co-educational, college preparatory day school that serves 1,200 students from pre-kindergarten through grade twelve.

For almost 27 years, Dr. Penick worked in philanthropy, serving as the first president of the Foundation for the Mid South (1990-2006), the first executive director of the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund (1985-1990), and the associate director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation (1979-1985). Immediately prior to assuming the headship of St. Andrew’s, Dr. Penick served for two years as the first director of the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute which was formed by RAND to address the public policy issues caused by the extensive damage from Hurricane Katrina in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

A graduate of Davidson College, Dr. Penick received both a master’s and doctorate in educational administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, focusing primarily on educational management, child development, and public policy. He also received a master’s in public administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Penick has served a variety of professional and volunteer organizations, including the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Center, the Council on Foundations, the Southeastern Council of Foundations, Women and Philanthropy, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Episcopal Relief and Development, the National Cathedral Association, the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson, the Carpathian Foundation, and Davidson College.

Dr. Penick and his family have been a part of the St. Andrew’s community for almost 20 years. He and his wife Carol have two children, Holladay and Robert, who are both graduates of St. Andrew's. George and Carol have led the Annual Fund Campaign, and Carol was president of the Parents’ Association, served on the Corporation board for many years, and worked in the school’s admissions office. The Penicks are communicants of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew, where Dr. Penick serves on the Vestry.

Bradford K. Smith

President
The Foundation Center
New York, NY

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Bradford K. Smith is president of the Foundation Center, a national nonprofit service organization recognized as the nation’s leading authority on organized philanthropy. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants around the world; issues a wide variety of print, electronic, and online information resources; conducts and publishes research on trends in foundation growth, giving, and practice; and offers an array of free and affordable educational programs.

Before joining the Foundation Center in 2008, Mr. Smith was president of the Oak Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, a major family foundation with programs and grant activities in 41 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Prior to joining the Oak Foundation he developed and led the Ford Foundation's Peace and Social Justice Program, the foundation's largest program area. During his ten-year tenure as vice president, the program provided hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations working on issues of human rights, international cooperation, governance, and civil society in the U.S. and around the world.

Mr. Smith has devoted his entire career to the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. He first joined the Ford Foundation as a program officer in its Brazil office. Prior to that, he directed the Brazil program of the Inter-American Foundation. At the start of his career, he worked for the YMCA of the USA, both in Costa Rica and New York, where he became manager for world development at its Center for International Management Studies.

Mr. Smith holds an M.A. in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and a B.A. in anthropology and ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan.

Ralph R. Smith

Executive Vice President
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Baltimore, MD

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Ralph R. Smith is executive vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private philanthropy dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. Jim Casey, one of the founders of United Parcel Service, and his siblings established the foundation — named in honor of their mother — in 1948. The foundation seeks to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.

Smith was a member of the law faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, a nationally recognized legal scholar and attorney, authoring briefs in landmark cases before the United States Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals. During his two decades on the law faculty Smith taught Corporations, Securities Regulations, and Education Law and Policy. His service outside the Law School includes serving in senior leadership positions for the School District of Philadelphia (including chief of staff and chief operating officer), as a key advisor to the Mayor of Philadelphia on children and family policy, and as the founding director of both the National Center on Fathers and Families and the Philadelphia Children’s Network.

Smith joined the Casey Foundation in 1994 as director of planning and development and is presently executive vice president and chief operating officer. In addition to his work within the foundation, Smith has spent the last decade working with a broad range of efforts to advance philanthropy in the United States and around the world. He serves on the boards of the Council on Foundations, the Foundation Center, Wachovia Regional Foundation, Venture Philanthropy Partners, the Clinton Center on Community Philanthropy, and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program and was an active participant in the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy.

Maureen H. Smyth

Senior Vice President, Programs and Communications
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Flint, MI

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Maureen Smyth has been working with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation since 1983 and is currently senior vice president—programs and communications. In this capacity, Ms. Smyth directs the program activities of the foundation, including regular grantmaking programs and special projects operated by the foundation. She also oversees all communications activities. Prior to this, she was vice president—programs; a program officer for the Mott Foundation’s Environment Program; and a consulting editor for the foundation’s major publications. Ms. Smyth also worked as a legislative liaison for the Michigan Association of School Boards and was a legislative analyst with the Michigan House of Representatives.

She is past chair and a current board member of the Trust for Civil Society for Central and Eastern Europe. She is also a board member of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, the Foundation Center, and is a member of the advisory committees for the Center for Effective Philanthropy and Independent Sector’s Ethics and Accountability Committee. She has previously served on the boards of the Council of Michigan Foundations, the Environmental Grantmakers Association, and Michigan’s Children, and on the Council on Foundation’s Legislation and Regulations Committee.

Barron M. Tenny, Vice Chairman

Executive Vice President, Ford Foundation
New York, NY

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Barron M. Tenny is executive vice president, secretary and general counsel of the Ford Foundation. He joined the foundation in 1983 as special assistant to the president and was made vice president, secretary and general counsel in 1984.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Tenny spent nine years at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. He started as a staff attorney in 1974 and became general counsel, vice president, and assistant secretary in 1977. From 1970 to 1974 Mr. Tenny was an attorney with the New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst.

Mr. Tenny graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1969. He received his bachelor’s degree in history and science from Harvard College.

Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm

Executive Director
WITNESS
Brooklyn, NY

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Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm is executive director of WITNESS, the international human rights organization that opens the eyes of the world to human rights. WITNESS empowers people to use video and online technologies to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change. She is an attorney with nearly two decades of experience in media and new technologies.

Prior to joining WITNESS, she served as executive vice president of content strategy & acquisition at Joost, the global online video platform formed by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype and Kazaa. Previously, Alberdingk Thijm spent more than a decade at MTV Networks International (MTVNI) and was instrumental in its international growth and forays into new media. Alberdingk Thijm also served on the Advisory Board of Lioness, a documentary about five female soldiers in Iraq. She is currently spearheading WITNESS’ innovation strategies with projects like the Hub, the online global channel for human rights.

Thomas E. Wilcox

President
Baltimore Community Foundation
Baltimore, MD

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Thomas E. Wilcox joined the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF) in September, 2000, continuing his 30-year career in the promotion of diversity and excellence in the nonprofit sector.

Tom Wilcox is currently overseeing the development of Invest in Baltimore, BCF’s civic agenda that will encompass and measure coordinated efforts to reduce poverty, stimulate economic growth, and assure a high quality of life in Greater Baltimore. Tom is also overseeing the development of the Middle Grades Partnership, a collaborative of leading private and public schools and universities that offers academically promising Baltimore Middle School youth the opportunity to excel in challenging high schools, flourish in college, and enter the work force prepared for Baltimore’s most demanding and rewarding professions.

Since coming to BCF Wilcox has led fundraising efforts that have helped the foundation triple its annual grantmaking, from an average of less than $10 million per year in the 1990s to an average of more than $30 million per year in this decade. These efforts have contributed to Baltimore’s renaissance and have brought opportunity to many Baltimoreans.

Wilcox currently serves on the boards of the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund, the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Foundation, the Foundation Center, the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust, the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, the East Baltimore Development Inc. Educational Initiative, and CFLeads, a coalition of community foundations committed to civic leadership.

Before joining BCF, Wilcox served as headmaster of Concord Academy in Massachusetts for 19 years. He was the founding director of the Association of Boarding Schools and a headmaster, teacher, and administrator in schools in the U.S. and Europe. Wilcox has a B.A. from Colorado College and an Ed.M. from Harvard University, where he divided his studies between the Graduate Schools of Education and Business Administration.