Native Americans in Philanthropy
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Native Americans in Philanthropy was formed in 1990 and "seeks to engage Native and non-Native peoples in understanding and advancing the role of philanthropy through practices that support Native traditional values for current and future generations." [1]
- Joy Persall - Executive Director
- Ron Rowell - President
- N. Bird Runningwater - Former Chair
Contents
Directors
Accessed April 2008: [2]
- Chair - David Cournoyer - (Sicangu Lakota -Rosebud); Lumina Foundation for Education
- Vice-Chair - Lori Lea Pourier - (Oglala/Mnicoujou Lakota); First Peoples Fund
- Secretary-Treasurer - Megan Minoka Hill - (Oneida); Honoring Nations, The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
- Shelley Butler-Allen - (Kiowa/Caddo); Cherokee Nation Education Corporation
- LuAnn Leonard - (Hopi/Tohno O'odham); Hopi Education Endowment Fund (HEEF)
- Ricardo Lopez - (Aleut); Rasmuson Foundation
- Carla Roberts - (Eastern Delaware); Arizona Community Foundation
- Gabrielle (Gaby) Strong - (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota); Lower Sioux Indian Community
- Richard B. Williams - (Oglala Lakota); American Indian College Fund
Member Emeritus
- Louis Delgado - (Oneida); Loyola University Chicago
Funders and Partners
Accessed April 2008: [3]
- Amy Besaw
- Arizona Grantmakers Forum
- Bush Foundation
- Carnegie Corporation
- Changemakers
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Chippewa Graphics
- C.J. & Mattie Lowery Fund of the San Francisco Foundation
- Julie Early - Island Foundation
- Forest County Potawatomi Community Foundation
- Lucille Echohawk
- First Nations Development Institute
- Ford Foundation
- Grotto Foundation
- Headwaters Foundation for Justice
- Institute of International Education
- Marguerite Casey Foundation
- Marsha Kelly, Kelly & Associates, Inc.
- Lumina Foundation for Education
- Minnesota Council on Foundation
- Northwest Area Foundation
- Otto Bremer Foundation
- Rasmuson Foundation
- San Manuel Band of Mission Indians
- Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
- San Francisco Foundation
- Minneapolis Foundation
- Saint Paul Foundation
- Two Feathers Fund of the The St. Paul Foundation
- United Tribes Technical College
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Dan & Beth Whittemore
