Jason was appointed in June 2015 as the W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair at the Johnson Center for Philanthropy to which he brings a background in grantmaking and donor education, nonprofit strategy and leadership, social entrepreneurship, & community organizing and advocacy. As holder of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on community philanthropy, he engages in research, teaching, service, and thought leadership to explore and advance the field, nationally and internationally. Additionally, Jason is the President of Ktisis Capital Advisors through which he serves as a strategic advisor to a mix of progressive individual donors, families, foundations and philanthropic collaboratives.  He serves as board chair of the Proteus Fund; co-founder and co-chair of the Solidaire Donor Network; and on the boards of WiserGiving, Proteus Action League, and the Michigan Civic Education Fund. He is also an advisory board member of the Chartered Advisors in Philanthropy Program, Amplifier, Our LGBT Fund at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation, and the Movement Voter Project and a member of the Democracy Alliance, Threshold Foundation and their High Impact Documentary Funding Circle, and WINGS: Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support. Prior to his appointment as the Kellogg Chair, he served as Executive Director of Bolder Giving, an organization that inspired people to give big & take more risks with their philanthropy and was credited by Melinda Gates as an inspiration for the billionaire Giving Pledge. He received his PhD in Public Administration from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service where he also held an appointment for ten years as an award-winning adjunct professor teaching about philanthropy and social change.

Ingrid, director of the Daphne Foundation, has spent over a decade helping leaders and organizations reach new levels of capacity and efficacy. In addition to working with the Daphne Foundation, Ingrid works with philanthropic and community-based organizations as an organizational development consultant and capacity builder,  facilitator, and grantmaker. She is the co-founder and co-chair of New York Blacks in Philanthropy and is on the board of the United We Dream Network and the Steering Committee of the Solidaire Network. Ingrid is dedicated to building the field towards social and systemic change, Ingrid brings her perspective and experiences to all of her work with social change leaders and organizations. A first generation immigrant from Nicaragua, Ingrid’s family moved to California in the early 1980s where she began her work in social justice as a regional organizer against an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative – Proposition 209. She continued to work in the field of student and youth leadership and organizing, supporting the programmatic direction of Youth Together, School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), and as the Director of the California Fund for Youth organizing, she helped foster collaboration between practitioners and funders to promote youth organizing as an effective strategy for developing a new generation of social change leaders.

Holmes is the founder of Clean Energy Works, which connects champions of energy efficiency and renewable energy with resources that accelerate investment in the deployment of clean energy solutions. In addition, he serves on the board of Cleantech Open, the world’s largest accelerator built to find, fund, and foster the most promising cleantech startups and also on the board of Cornerstone Capital Inc.

In 2009, Holmes was appointed as the Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Policy & International Affairs, serving through 2013. In that capacity, Holmes engaged a wide range of industry and public interest stakeholders to inform energy policy decisions on such topics as clean energy finance, water-energy interdependency, natural gas resource development, trade policy, climate change, environmental regulation and grid reliability. In addition to stewarding agency work on energy and climate policy development, Holmes founded the Water-Energy Technology Team within DOE and also led the DOE Energy Finance Working Group.

In earlier public service, Holmes served as a Congressional Science Fellow focused on energy and climate policy. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C., Holmes designed corporate energy strategies for clients of Silicon Energy, an energy software firm acquired by Itron, and later consulted briefly with the Google Energy & Climate team. Holmes was first hooked on energy technology innovation 20 years ago as a co-leader of the Clarkson University Solar Car Team, which designed and raced a highly efficient experimental electric vehicle across the country using only the power of the sun.

Brooke has been active as an educator and activist since the mid 80s. She was a founding member of the Direct Action Network, Bluestockings Bookstore (NYC), and most recently The Watershed Center. Brooke serves on the faculty of the Institute for Social Ecology, as well as on the Steering Committee of  Solidaire, and the Board of the Schumacher Center for New Economics. Brooke leads workshops on generative communication, yoga, non-violent direct action, and structuring democratic organizations, and works as an organizational transformation consultant for social justice organizations. Her true passion, however, is match-making and turtle whispering.

Sophie is a filmmaker, social justice activist, and philanthropist. Sophie is the Executive Producer and Director of Outreach for the Age of Consequences, a documentary about how climate change impacts national security. She organized and coordinated with The Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts for two years – spearheading one of the leading statewide climate networks in the country. Sophie has Psychology and Environmental Science degrees from Williams College, and is currently finishing a masters degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard. Her focuses in philanthropy are in racial justice and environmental justice.

Deborah is the president of the Sagner Family Foundation whose mission is to support non-profits working to make structural change in order to advance education, economic, and racial justice.  She is also the vice president of The Sagner Companies, Inc., a residential and commercial real estate development company. Deborah practiced as a family and play therapist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ.  She is the author of The Family Play Genogram (1999), a guidebook for the play therapy technique she pioneered and popularized; she has presented workshops on the Family Play Genogram technique in the US and internationally. Deborah is a member of the Steering Committee of Solidaire. She served on the board of directors of the HealthCare Foundation of NJ, New jersey Performing Arts Center, Culture  Project and J Street. Raised in New Jersey, Deborah has a BA from Brandeis University, an MA from Tufts, and an MSW from Fordham. She has four grown children and four granddaughters.