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Danielle Scaturro, Director, PropelNext, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
PND spoke with Scaturro about the progress of the PropelNext initiative to date, and — as EMCF prepares to spend down its assets over the next decade — its future plans....

Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Foundation Center's Jen Bokoff, a former employee of the foundation, spoke with Tisch about her recent donation to a new fund, her investment philosophy, and how philanthropy creates impact....

Donna McKay, Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights
PND asked McKay about PHR's work, in the U.S. and elsewhere, to end human rights abuses as well as the role of science, medicine, and technology in advancing those efforts....

Claudia Juech, Associate Vice President and Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation
PND spoke with Juech about Rockefeller's "scan and search" activities, an approach the foundation is using to bring more diverse voices into the earliest stages of its work....

Alma Powell, Chair, America’s Promise Alliance
PND spoke with Alma Powell about the network's work, the progress it has made toward its goals over the last twenty years, and what every American can do to help....

Craig Barrett, former CEO and Chair, Intel Corp.
PND spoke with Barrett about Intel's decision to discontinue its support for the Intel Science Talent Search, the transformation of science and engineering education more broadly, and the continued value, for students and society, of basic science....

Chris Gates, Executive Vice President for External Affairs, Council on Foundations
PND spoke with Gates about his new role at the council and what he — and it — can do to help its members prepare for the next four years....

Jennifer Preston, Vice President for Journalism, Knight Foundation
Preston spoke with PND about the problem of fake news, the role of social media in the recent presidential election, and the matching campaign, which is open through January 19....

Alison Taylor, Director, Business for Social Responsibility
PND contributing editor Michael Wiener spoke with Taylor about transparency and the changing corporate social responsibility environment....

Cecilia Clarke, President and CEO, Brooklyn Community Foundation
PND spoke with Cecilia Clarke, the foundation's president and CEO, about the foundation's focus on racial justice, its decision to divest its portfolio of industries that disproportionately harm people of color, and the post-election role of philanthropy in advancing racial equity....

Kenneth Fisher, Chairman and CEO, Fisher House Foundation
Ahead of Veterans Day, PND spoke with Fisher — whose foundation provides lodging for military families near VA hospitals and military medical centers — about the role of philanthropy in addressing the needs of service members and veterans....

George Abbott, Community & National Initiatives, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
PND chatted via email with Abbott about the 2017 Knight Cities Challenge, the kinds of ideas the foundation is looking for, and Knight’s unique approach to grantmaking....

Zoë Baird, CEO/President, Markle Foundation
PND's Matt Sinclair spoke with Baird about a recent Workforce of the Future Survey, the Markle Foundation's Skillful initiative, and how the job market in the U.S. is changing....

Kim Laughton, President, Schwab Charitable
PND spoke with the president of Schwab Charitable about her fund's results for the fiscal year just ended and what she makes of the persistent criticism of commercially sponsored donor-advised fund providers....

June Wilson, Executive Director, Quixote Foundation
PND spoke with June Wilson about diversity in environmental organizations and across the nonprofit sector and about the foundation's "spend-up" process....

Matt Foreman, Senior Program Director, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
PND asked Foreman about the role of philanthropy in the fight for marriage equality, the challenges that remain for the LGBT community a year after the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and the implications of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando....

Debra Mesch, Director, Women’s Philanthropy Institute, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
PND spoke with Mesch about her research and what it tells us about the differences in the way men and women give and how those differences translate into philanthropic practice....