David Martinez III

David Martinez III (he/him/his) serves as a director at Vitalyst Health Foundation, overseeing the foundation’s grant programming and Civic Health portfolio. In this work, he focuses on building and sustaining civic infrastructure, especially organizing philanthropy and making the connection that civic health efforts are critical to the health of our democracy. He is Vice Chair of the Funders Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) Census Initiative and is active with Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) and Grantmakers in Health (GIH). He also serves as an advisor to the National Trust for Civic Life, an effort born out of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. Born and raised in Arizona, David is a first-generation college graduate from The University of Arizona (UA), is a Flinn-Brown Fellow with the Arizona Center for Civic Leadership, and serves as a trustee of the Desert Botanical Garden.