Philanthropy Authors

François Furstenberg is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University.

Janet Carter is the former longtime CEO of Coaching Corps and is now CEO of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA).

Jason Sacks became president of PCA in 2022 after serving in a number of roles in the organization since 2006.

Jeremy Turley covers the Omaha metro area for the Flatwater Free Press. Read his full bio.

Erin K. McFee is professor of practice of climate security at the National Defense University.

William Schambra is co-editor of the Giving Review, senior fellow emeritus at the Hudson Institute, and previously held positions at the American Enterprise Institute and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

Jonathan Röders is a research associate in peace and conflict studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Benjamin Soskis is a senior research associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute. This op-ed reflects his views and not the views of his employer.

Lucy Bernholz is a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and director of the Digital Civil Society Lab.

Amy Schiller is the author of “The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong and How to Fix It” and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College.

Aaron Dorfman is chief executive of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

Cynthia Gibson is a consultant for foundations and nonprofits on efforts to advance civic engagement, democracy, and civil society.

Michael Moody is a professor of philanthropic studies at Indiana University.

Before joining Media Impact Funders in 2011 as executive director, Vince was program director for Nonprofit Sector Support at the Surdna Foundation, a family foundation based in New York City.

Gara LaMarche is former president of the Atlantic Philanthropies and former director of U.S. programs for the Open Society Foundations. He is currently a senior advisor at Raben.

Beth Kanter, a thought leader, writer, and facilitator in digital transformation and wellbeing in the nonprofit workplace, is the co-author with Allison Fine of The Networked Nonprofit.

Susan Wolf Ditkoff (@ditkoffsw) is a fellow at Harvard University; a senior advisor at the Bridgespan Group; a senior advisor to TEN, an initiative of the Jewish Funders Network and the Weinberg Foundation; and board member of EL Education.

Cheryl L. Dorsey is president of Echoing Green.

Daniel Stid is executive director of Lyceum Labs, a start-up nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of political leadership and party politics in the United States. The former director of the U.S. democracy program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, he writes the blog the Art of Association.

Alison Powell is a partner in the Bridgespan Group’s San Francisco office.