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Aligning
for Impact: Connecting the Dots
March 31 — April 1, 2009
Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles

Presenters at Aligning for Impact: Connecting the Dots will include:

  • Gregory Baldwin, President, Volunteer Match
  • Teri Behrens, Editor-in-Chief, Foundation Review
  • Matthew Bishop, Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor, The Economist
  • David Bonbright, Founder and Chief Executive, Keystone
  • Father Gregory Boyle, Founder, Homeboy Industries
  • Phil Buchanan, President, The Center for Effective Philanthropy
  • Jim Canales, President and CEO, James Irvine Foundation
  • David C. Colby, Vice President—Research and Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great, Built to Last, and Good to Great in the Social Sectors
  • Alexa Cortes Culwell, CEO, Stupski Foundation
  • M. Christine DeVita, President, The Wallace Foundation
  • Mike Edwards, former Director of Governance and Civil Society Unit, Ford Foundation
  • Crystal Hayling, President anc CEO, Blue Shield of California Foundation
  • Stephen Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  • Lisa R. Jackson, PhD, Vice President – Research, The Center for Effective Philanthropy
  • Carla Javits, President, REDF (formerly Roberts Enterprise Development Fund)
  • Dan Katzir, Managing Director, The Broad Foundation
  • Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies
  • Carol Larson, President and CEO, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Patty Maddox, President and CEO, Winter Park Health Foundation
  • Lawrence T. McGill, Senior Vice President for Research, Foundation Center
  • Kathy Merchant, President and CEO, Greater Cincinnati Foundation
  • Judy Jolley Morhaz, President and CEO, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
  • Perla Ni, CEO, GreatNonprofits
  • George Overholser, Founder & Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners
  • Ed Pauly, Director of Research and Evaluation, The Wallace Foundation
  • Carleen K. Rhodes, President, St. Paul Foundation
  • Nancy Roob, President, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
  • Robert K. Ross, President and CEO, California Endowment
  • Ralph Smith, Executive Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Sean Stannard-Stockton, Author of Tactical Philanthropy
  • Vince Stehle, Program Officer – Nonprofit Sector Initiative, Surdna Foundation
  • Larry Stupski, Chairman, Stupski Foundation
  • Fay Twersky, Director, Impact Planning & Improvement, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    For more details, see the preliminary agenda.