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Mary Bess Ser grew up in the rust belt city of Youngstown, Ohio. She earned a bachelor’s from Antioch College and a master’s in education from Depaul University. She is a licensed high school English teacher. She has facilitated over 600 interviews for StoryCorps and is currently a Field Manager…
Cynthia Wallace is the Executive Director and co-founder of the New Rural Project which is a partner with the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative. The New Rural Project has developed innovative and effective strategies to connect with and re-engage people of color in both local community issues and the…
Erica Etelson is a writer, community activist, and certified Powerful Non-Defensive Communication (PNDC) facilitator. A former human rights attorney, she is one of the co-founders of the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative and its Communications Director. Following the 2016 election, Etelson became…
Anthony Flaccavento is a farmer and rural development consultant from Abingdon, Virginia and the author of Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real World Experience for Transformative Change (University Press of Kentucky, 2016). Anthony was the Democratic candidate for…
The Council’s Public Policy Action Network is a members-only group of foundation leaders committing their voices, experiences, and networks to engage and educate federal elected officials to foster a policy environment in which philanthropy can thrive. Policymakers depend on the voices and…
Janet N. Ekezie is a life enthusiast hoping to influence change through compassion and curiosity. Janet has worked in the public sector for several years. She first worked as a service-learning coordinator, working to coordinate experiential opportunities for students. During this time, Janet…
Global grantmakers stand at a crossroads, faced with a choice to embrace new ways of operating that center and directly support local organizations or rely on systems that reinforce unbalanced power structures. For U.S. foundations, this choice comes at a time when USAID has recommitted to new ways…
The Council has partnered with Candid (formerly Foundation Center) to publish data on global giving by U.S. foundations for decades.
Importantly, both the 2018 edition and 2022 edition specifically analyze direct grants made by U.S. foundations to local organizations in other countries…