Leslie Strnisha leads the Foundation's program team to develop targeted, outcomes-based approaches for its grantmaking and non-grantmaking activities. She is an adjunct instructor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2006, Ms. Strnisha served in various capacities for the Cleveland office of the Enterprise Foundation until 2003. She provided training and technical assistance to community-based organizations in the areas of community planning and program development.

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Deborah Fung is the executive director for The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation, a family foundation based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Fireman Foundation dedicates a major share of its funding resources to ending family homelessness in the Commonwealth and beyond. The Foundation also supports a range of other causes.

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Tom is a member of the Board of Trustees of the William S. Abell Foundation and chair of its Homelessness Committee. The Foundation recently completed a five-year, $8M strategic initiative to help end homelessness in the nation’s capital. He is also on the Board and serves as president of the Nurmi Family Foundation. He is a retired corporate lawyer.

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Since joining the Foundation in September 1986, Nancy Barrand, M.P.A., has been involved in the development and management of programs focusing on public and private coverage, health policy research, long term care, housing, and rural issues. Prior to joining RWJF, she worked as legislative staff in the U.S. Senate and in the California State Assembly. Nancy received an M.P.A. from Harvard University and completed her undergraduate work at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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Sonya Campion brings a successful career in fundraising to the field of philanthropy, with 25 years development experience working with over 125 organizations and successfully completing over 25 major capital campaigns through her work as principal of The Collins Group, a regional fundraising consulting firm. She is a strong believer in the power of philanthropy and is an international fundraising speaker and trainer having recently taught at the International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands as well as co-chairing with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation the launch of the Northwest affiliate of Funders Together to End Homelessness.

Along with her husband, Sonya is co-founder and trustee of the Campion Foundation, which focuses on permanently preserving wilderness and ending homelessness. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, Seattle-King-Snohomish County YWCA, Whitman College Board of Overseers, and the WA State Association of Fundraising Professionals. In addition, she is serving as co-chair for the Methow Land Conservancy’s Capital Campaign. She holds a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Political Science from Whitman College, and can often be found in wild places, from the Methow Valley to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Since 1997, Terri Donlin Huesman has served as director of programs for the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations. In this role, Terri leads the Foundation's community health and quality of life strategic grantmaking initiatives in central and southeastern Ohio. These initiatives include oral health, obesity, and homelessness. In addition, Terri has co-led a number of funding partnerships including the Community Health Funders’ Collaborative, Oral Health Capacity Building Initiative, and the Athens County Funding Collaborative.

Terri is involved with a number organizations including: Appalachian Ohio Giving, Community Shelter Board’s Rebuilding Lives Funders Collaborative, and AccessHealth Columbus-Employed Latino Health Initiative.

Prior to her work with the Foundations, Terri led youth and older adult programming for the City of Cincinnati, Kettering and Grandview Heights. Terri holds a master in business administration from Franklin University and a bachelor’s from Bowling Green State University. She is a graduate of Leadership Columbus and Leadership Ohio.

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Bill Pitkin oversees the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s domestic priority areas. He led the development of the Foundation’s strategy for addressing chronic homelessness in Los Angeles and continues to have direct oversight over that strategic initiative. Prior to joining the Foundation, Bill was director of research and planning at United Way of Greater Los Angeles, where he oversaw the publication of research reports and led a strategic planning process resulting in that organization’s 10-year action plan to fight poverty in Los Angeles. Other past positions Pitkin has held include executive director at the Los Angeles United Methodist Urban Foundation and research director at the Advanced Policy Institute in the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Affairs. Bill has published research articles and reports on topics including community and nonprofit technology, middle school education, homelessness, housing affordability, mortgage lending discrimination, participatory planning in Latin America, and urban planning history. He has taught in the UCLA Urban Planning Department and the Urban Studies and Planning Program at California State University, Northridge. He received his doctorate and master’s degree in urban planning from UCLA.

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Debbie Reznick is a senior program officer for the Polk Bros. Foundation in Chicago. Debbie was on the board of the Chicago Continuum of Care, which initiated and created the city’s Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness. She currently serves on the board of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness and on the Chicago Planning Council on Homelessness, which is a 23-member body that establishes policies, principles and priorities related to HUD’s SuperNOFA process each year. Debbie also co-convenes a regional group of foundations that meets regularly to discuss homelessness strategies and solutions for the city.

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Martha Toll is the founding executive director of the Butler Family Fund, a path-breaking philanthropy focused on ending homelessness, abolishing the death penalty, and ending the sentence of juvenile life without parole. The Council on Foundations, prominent homelessness organizations, and leading foundations have recognized the Butler Family Fund for its innovative and strategic grantmaking. In addition to serving on the Funders Together board, Martha is past co-chair of two national affinity groups, the Juvenile Justice Work Group and the Neighborhood Funders Group, and she is a member of Funders for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Under her leadership, the Butler Family Fund has formed a partnership with the Geneva-based Oak Foundation that expands the breadth and depth of the Fund's homelessness grantmaking. Martha is a graduate of Yale College and Boston University School of Law.

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Joseph Weisbord is director of foreclosure prevention at Fannie Mae, where he directs an initiative to create supportive housing and end chronic homelessness. Joe has over 20 years of professional experience in community development, residential real estate development and public policy. Joe worked with community based development organizations for 7 years as a member of the PICCED staff. He also has extensive experience in nonprofit management having spent 5 years as vice president for management and planning at Corporation for Supportive Housing. Prior to Fannie Mae, he was staff director for Housing First!, a coalition of community, business, labor, civic and religious organizations committed to educating the public and promoting solutions to New York City's affordable housing crisis. Housing First! played a key role in facilitating and shaping Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "New Marketplace" housing initiative.

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Anne Miskey has worked for a number of years in both the philanthropic and corporate sectors. Her most recent position was director of community initiatives for the Oakville Community Foundation, where she helped to build cross-sector collaboratives that focused on a variety of issues including poverty, diversity, children’s and senior’s mental health, and the arts. Prior to the Foundation, she worked for United Way of Oakville and led a social research project to determine pressing local needs and develop community based, neighborhood solutions.

Anne’s years in the corporate world included running her own consulting business, which provided training to major corporations in developing strategic business and communications plans. She also worked for many years in public relations and corporate communications for Bell Canada.

Anne has served recently on the Board of Directors of Oakville Galleries, a contemporary art museum, and has been active in the field of bereavement and infant/child loss. She studied in Europe (Spain, France), the United States (Seattle, San Diego), and has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Lethbridge, Alberta and a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Toronto.

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Teri Larson has more than 20 years' experience in nonprofit communications, working primarily with local and national foundations and their grantee partners. Most recently, she served as a vice president at Bethesda, Md.-based Burness Communications, where she worked closely with a wide variety of clients, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Consumer Health Foundation, Harvard University, and Boston College.

For these and other clients, Teri worked to advance important social policy issues, including national accreditation for local public health departments, access to health care for vulnerable populations, Medicaid policy for people with disabilities, social determinants of health, and community revitalization. Prior to Burness, Teri worked in consumer outreach for another Washington, D.C.-area communications firm and in the community affairs office of a regional hospital in Virginia. She holds a master's degree in health policy from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and an undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech. She is a town meeting member in Belmont, Mass., where she lives with her family.

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Allison Silva is responsible for membership relations as well as grant coordination for Funders Together. She has devoted both her educational and professional efforts to working with non-profit organizations on social justice issues. Prior to joining Funders Together, Allison served as program manager for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a Boston-based non-profit comprised of current and former members of law enforcement and the legal community who seek to reform America’s drug laws. Allison’s role with LEAP included event planning, grant writing, and speaker, member, and donor coordination.

Following her work with LEAP, Allison matriculated as a law student and interned with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission, and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. She has been active in the effort to protect marriage equality and to advance lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in Massachusetts and Connecticut.  Allison received her B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Connecticut and her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

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