NFF Board of Directors

Elizabeth C. Sullivan
NFF Board Chair
Vice President, Community Investment
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

Jim Bildner
General Partner
New Horizons Partners, LLC

Maria E. Blair
National Vice President, Strategy
American Cancer Society

Antony Bugg-Levine
CEO
Nonprofit Finance Fund

Audrey Choi
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley Global Sustainable Finance

Andrew B. Cohn
NFF Board Secretary
Partner
Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C. 

Tessie Guillermo
President and CEO
ZeroDivide

Lisa Hall
President and CEO
Calvert Foundation

Kimberly Johnson
Partner
KPMG LLP

Robert S. Robbin
Partner
Holland & Knight, LLP

Ruth Salzman
CEO
The Russell Berrie Foundation

Janet Thompson
Citibank
(Retired)

David Vollmayer
NFF Board Treasurer
President
Liberator Management Company, LLC

Founder: Clara Miller
Clara Miller founded NFF in 1984, and held the role of President & CEO through February 2011.

Staff

NFF MANAGEMENT
Antony Bugg-Levine: CEO
Norah McVeigh: Interim Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, Financial Services

Sonia Montoya: Senior Associate
David Friedkin: Coordinator
Kelly Goff: Executive Assistant
Joanne Sullivan: Executive Assistant

EASTERN REGION
William Pinakiewicz: Vice President
Rebekah Caton: Coordinator
Emily Triggs: Analyst

WESTERN REGION
David Greco: Vice President

MIDWEST REGION
Dione Alexander: Vice President
Kevin Sweeney: Director

CAPITAL PARTNERS
Craig Reigel: Managing Director
Julia Bromka: Associate Director

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
Norah McVeigh: Interim Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, Financial Services

FINANCIAL SERVICES
Norah McVeigh: Interim Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, Financial Services
Anne Dyjak: Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
Connie Max: Vice President & Chief Credit Officer
Brendan Beier: Director, New Markets Tax Credit
Barbara Libove: Associate Director, Asset Management
Catherine Lozaw: Manager, Asset Management
Gilda Moussazadeh:Senior Associate, Loan Administrator
Nancy Nichols: Senior Associate, Closing Specialist

NATIONAL SERVICES
Kristin Giantris: Managing Director
Rodney Christopher: Vice President
(Currently Senior Fellow, Social Investment Practice, The F. B. Heron Foundation)
Emily Guthman: Director
Peter Kramer: Manager
Rebecca Thomas: Vice President


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New York
Boston
Newark, NJ
Philadelphia
Detroit
San Francisco
Los Angeles
National

Selected Biographies

Alice Richardson Antonelli: Director
Alice, Director, joined the Philadelphia Office in 2002, and is responsible for leading consulting services initiatives, which include playing a lead role in delivery and product development; cultivating and managing client relationships; and teaching workshops and seminars. Alice was also a part of the NFF lending team, responsible for business development and underwriting loans. Prior to NFF, she worked at JP Morgan Chase as VP for the Community Development Corporation. She served as a member of the board of Narberth Presbyterian Church, and is serving as a member of the Audit Committee of Delaware Valley Grantmakers.  Alice has also served as a grant panelist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and faculty for the NeighborWorks America Training Institute. Alice has an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a BS from St. Lawrence University, and is a PQAS-certified (Pennsylvania Quality Assurance System) instructor.

Andrew Schwalm: Manager
Andrew is a Manager in the Knowledge & Communications department at NFF. He develops, organizes and implements NFF's national social media and web content strategy. As part of that work, he launched NFF’s Social Currency blog for which he solicits and edits staff and guest author contributions, including reports from the field, advice to nonprofit administrators and innovative ideas for leadership and communications. He has worked as a freelance documentary filmmaker and began his nonprofit career as the head of Marketing and Communications for First Person Arts, a Philadelphia-based arts organization dedicated to the discovery and promotion of memoir and documentary art. A graduate of Vassar College, he trained in linguistic anthropology and field ethnography at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania. Both at work and in his spare time, he employs empirical observation in a variety of media to build community, tell stories, and foster awareness.

Angela Francis: Manager
Angela is a Manager at Nonprofit Finance Fund. Based in Philadelphia, she works with NFF’s Western Region team to manage capacity building initiatives across the country, including two multi-year grantmaking projects: one with social service providers and one focused on youth-serving arts institutions. Angela shares our findings from this work by drafting reports and regular blog contributions for our partners. Prior to NFF, she was a grantwriter at Isles, Inc., a nonprofit community development corporation engaged in a broad range of neighborhood revitalization activities in Trenton, New Jersey. A graduate of The Pennsylvania State University, she holds degrees in Advertising and Women’s Studies. Outside of NFF, Angela serves as a board member for Spiral Q Puppet Theater and an advisory board member for Public Herald.

Anjali Deshmukh: Director
Anjali is Director of Knowledge & Communications at Nonprofit Finance Fund. She is responsible for writing, editing, graphic design, and project management for NFF's public media, including research reports, articles, blogs, and marketing documents. Previous to NFF, she held a variety of communications-related positions, including working as a writer at LaPlaca Cohen, a marketing firm specializing in services to cultural institutions, and as an Americorps Vista volunteer at the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance. She received her BA from Amherst College and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a Fulbright Scholar in Fine Arts and continues to be involved in the arts; her work can be viewed at anjalideshmukh.com.

Anne Dyjak: Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
Anne is the Chief Investment Officer and Vice President at Nonprofit Finance Fund. Anne is responsible for developing financial solutions to meet the needs of the communities NFF serves. Anne joined NFF in 2005 following a 22 year career in traditional financial services. She has held diverse positions, most recently as Chief Credit Officer at NFF where she was responsible for credit quality nationwide. Prior to joining NFF, Anne was the Northeast region Chief Operations Officer at Wachovia Bank where she was responsible for oversight of a $600 million portfolio of commercial loans and direct management of a $75 million distressed loan portfolio. She has extensive experience in management, analysis, strategic planning, risk management and organizational development. She has served as the Finance Director of a nonprofit organization. She is active in community service and has served in various board officer capacities. Anne has a degree in Agricultural Economics from Rutgers University.

Barbara Libove: Associate Director, Asset Management
Barbara is Associate Director, Asset Management in the Financial Services department at NFF. Her responsibilities include credit and financial analysis, line of credit renewals, and loan restructuring. Barbara’s professional experience spans the nonprofit finance and investment banking sectors. Prior to joining NFF, Barbara was at the Partnership Fund for New York City, where she underwrote investments in NYC-based startups and social enterprises. Barbara began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she was an Analyst in the Investment Banking Division. Barbara is a board member of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS). She holds a B.S. in Economics with minors in German and Religion from Duke University.

Christiana Fischer: Senior Associate
Christiana Fischer is a Senior Associate in Advisory Services based in the New England office. Christiana works directly with clients to support the development of budgets, business models, financial analysis and facilitates strategic conversations with board and staff. Christiana also regularly presents at regional and national NFF workshops and supports national NFF initiatives such as NFF’s Pay for Success program. Prior to coming to NFF, Christiana worked in higher-education at Wentworth Institute of Technology, facilitating campus/community partnerships to provide mutually beneficial project opportunities for students, faculty and nonprofits and community based organizations in the Mission Hill and Fenway neighborhoods of Boston. Christiana has a BA in English and an MBA specializing in Public and Nonprofit Management from Boston University. 

Connie Max: Vice President & Chief Credit Officer
Connie is Vice President, Chief Credit Officer with Financial Services. In her role she directs the development and implementation of credit policies, and processes including underwriting, structuring, documentation and management of investments to ensure compliance with relevant programmatic, financial and risk criteria.

Connie brings 20+ years of U.S. and international experience in strategically evaluating, and advising on investment and lending structures across private sector, government and supranational entities. As the Director of Prudential Financial’s Social Investment Division, Connie grew Prudential’s social investment portfolio by 40%. After Prudential Connie provided financial and project consulting in the charter school field and lists CDFIs, charter management organizations and developers as clients. Early in her career she also worked with ShoreBank Advisory Services advising on structures to a range of institutions. Her community development work began when she left a mainstream mortgage bank position to volunteer in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica.

Craig Reigel: Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners
Craig is Managing Director, NFF Capital Partners. He joined NFF after serving as a project based consultant to the nascent Capital Partners business for over a year. The core of his work is attracting essential patient capital to high potential nonprofits, improving the allocation of capital within the sector. Craig comes to NFF with a long history of solving the dilemmas of growth in diverse environments. He has been a consultant to for-profit industry leaders, both with Bain & Company and independently, advising on a variety of strategic, operational, and organizational issues. In seven years as a principal in Datagraph Systems, Inc. he has taken a small business delivering performance management tools literally from the basement to international success. In his spare time, Craig is a partner in a small wine business in San Francisco. Twice an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he has earned both a B.A. in Economics and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Dana Britto: Senior Associate
Dana has been with NFF since 2008 and is a core member of the Advisory Services team in New York. As a Senior Associate, Dana delivers customized client consultations and workshops with both funders and nonprofits, including business model assessments, capitalization planning and financial literacy coaching. Dana’s experience as a lender with NFF’s Financial Services provides her with a holistic perspective of nonprofits, which she has employed with contributions to NFF’s Social Currency Blog. Prior to joining NFF, she spent two years working with Homes for the Homeless, one of the largest providers of transitional housing in the country. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College.

David Friedkin: Coordinator
David joined the Nonprofit Finance Fund as the Strategy Project Coordinator in the summer of 2012 to support NFF’s Strategy Project. Upon its completion in February 2013, David was hired as the Strategic Coordinator to support the CEO and the Senior Associate for Strategic Project Management. Previously, David worked as a consultant for World Learning, an international development organization; as an analyst for a real estate investment firm; and received the World Partners Fellowship from the American Jewish World Service to spend a year in Mumbai, India working for Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, a grassroots NGO implementing a harm reduction strategy within the HIV+ street-based drug using population. David graduated with a BSBA in Finance and Arabic from Washington University in St. Louis. Above all, David loves to cook, eat, and travel, take advantage of sunny days, and overlay a California lifestyle on a fast-paced New York City life.

David Greco: Vice President 
David is Vice President for the Western Region and manages NFF's Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. He is responsible for leading NFF's lending, capital grants, asset-building programs, and customized consulting services in the Western United States. David brings more than 20 years of experience in building nonprofit programs and earned income ventures. Prior to joining NFF, he served as Vice President of the Youth Leadership Institute and built YLI's national training and consulting services helping to bring youth and adults together to create more just and sustainable communities. For five years, David served as Senior Marketing Manager at Jossey-Bass Publishers where he launched a new social leadership publishing line. David has also served as the Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager for the National Wildlife Federation, and Director of Programs for the Horatio Alger Association working with economically disadvantaged youth. He is the author of "Nonprofit Financial Management" featured in "Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals." Originally from Philadelphia, David earned his M.A. in Political Science from Villanova University and B.S. in History & Politics from Drexel University.

Dione Alexander: Vice President
Dione is Vice President, Midwest Region. She is responsible for product development, planning, and implementation for loan and capital products and services and associated internal and external client relations. Dione's career experience includes service as Vice President, Corporate Banking and Loan Administration Officer, Comerica Bank, President and CEO, Greater Detroit BIDCO (CDFI), Director, Macomb County (MI) Procurement Technical Assistance Center, Department Executive, Wayne County (MI) Departments of Economic Development and Environment, and Managing Director, Detroit Minority Business Development Center.

Dione is a graduate of the School of Business and Industry at Florida A & M University and the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University. She is also a certified small business consultant. She serves on a number of boards and committees to include the W. K Kellogg Foundation's Mission Driven Investing Committee, Northern Initiatives (CDFI), National Community Development Institute, and Nonprofit Enterprise at Work.

Emily Guthman: Director
Emily is Director, Strategic Innovation. In this role, Emily directs NFF’s efforts around strategic initiative development, design and implementation nationally, designs innovative financing and funding programs, stewards stakeholder relationships and actively encourages a culture of innovation across the enterprise.  Her responsibilities include establishing and running a structure for sourcing innovations, assessing ideas advanced by stakeholders and staff and bringing successful innovations to scale.  Prior to joining NFF, Emily worked at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) where she managed federal funding operations and was responsible for government development efforts. She has also worked as a funder at the Fannie Mae Foundation, as well as in local government with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Emily holds a BA from Emory University, a Master of Public Policy in Community Development and Nonprofit Management from the University of Southern California, and a certificate in leadership from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Emily Triggs: Analyst
Emily is Analyst at NFF. Emily joined NFF in 2011 as a Program Coordinator and she is responsible for delivering customized advisory services to nonprofit clients in New York.  She also manages the NFF Social Impact Bond Learning Hub. Prior to NFF Emily worked in Boston as a Site Coordinator for LIFT, an anti-poverty nonprofit serving low-income families in urban centers around the country. At LIFT she was in charge of overseeing program delivery and developing strategic partnerships with funders, nonprofits, and Boston city government. Emily holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

Fathia Macauley: Associate Director, Investment Officer
Fathia is Associate Director, Investment Officer for the Western Region and is located in NFF’s Los Angeles office. She originates and underwrites loans and New Markets Tax Credit financings, maintains client relationships, and provides technical assistance to clients. Fathia has over 18 years of experience in developing and financing redevelopment projects, in addition to consulting and managing nonprofit organizations. Fathia has worked for nonprofit developers of affordable housing and CDFIs such as Century Housing Corporation, Beyond Shelter, Vermont Slauson EDC, and Project New Hope. She was also a business development representative for Mayor Richard Riordan in the Office of Economic Development as a liaison for large scale industrial and commercial projects involving complex financial structures. She holds a BA in History from UCLA and an MA in Urban Planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Jennifer Kawar: Director, Investment Officer 
Jennifer Kawar is Director, Investment Officer for Nonprofit Finance Fund. Before joining NFF in 2009, Jennifer worked as a consultant to financial services companies and private investors, evaluating acquisitions and sourcing capital. She has more than a decade of experience in Business Development, Underwriting, Portfolio Management and Credit Administration for financial institutions including Bank of America and GE Capital. Jennifer began her career in finance as a Securities Analyst for TIAA-CREF, a nonprofit Fortune 100 financial services organization.

Jennifer is committed to increasing access to capital and financial literacy in underserved sectors and communities. She co-chairs the Emergency Loan Fund Committee for Northern California Grantmakers and serves on the Housing Advisory Committee for the City of Berkeley, California, and on the Development and Audit Committees at Black Pine Circle School.. She received an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and has dual undergraduate degrees in English and Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jennifer Talansky: Vice President
Jen is Vice President for Knowledge and Communications, responsible for NFF’s strategies and activities on thought leadership, marketing, press and social media. As part of NFF’s knowledge sharing mandate, her team conducts NFF’s annual State of the Sector survey, which gathers and shares data on the challenges and financial condition of thousands of nonprofits. Previously, Jen held marketing, branding and sales roles at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Partnerships for Parks, Hearst Magazines Brand Development, and JP Morgan’s Private Client Group. She earned a BA in English Literature from Duke University and an MS in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jessica LaBarbera: Director
Jessica serves as Director, Strategic Innovation at Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) and in that role primarily focuses on supporting evolutions in the social impact investing space in addition to managing special initiatives and leading strategic consulting work with nonprofit clients. She has also served as NFF’s California Market Director leading program growth and product delivery in California and overseeing initiatives statewide.  Previously, she was a Vice President at Citi Community Capital, a division of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., where she provided structured financing and relationship management to national nonprofit and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) clients. Jessica has also served as a consultant to municipal government social service agencies, nonprofit advocacy organizations and direct service providers. She holds an MPA in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a BA in Sociology from the University of Virginia.

Jessica Prue: Senior Associate
Jessi is a Senior Associate on NFF’s Consulting Services team. In this role, she provides customized technical assistance to nonprofits across the country and delivers workshops, clinics and webinars that build the organizational capacity of both funders and nonprofits. She has helped funders create financial health dashboards, has explored the feasibility of various earned income ventures for nonprofits, and is currently managing NFF’s work with a cohort of eldercare organizations in Hawaii. Jessi began her nonprofit career in international development working with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, a Paraguayan artisans’ cooperative, and a refugee resettlement agency before landing at NFF. Today she focuses her energy on promoting NextGen philanthropy and advocating for homeless youth in San Francisco as a Board Member of both the One Percent Foundation and At the Crossroads. Jessi graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and holds a MPA from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

Jina Paik: Associate Director
Jina Paik joined Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) in 2008. As Associate Director of Advisory Services, Jina oversees NFF’s Metropolitan New York region in the delivery of strategic financial advisory services and manages business development, funder initiatives, and relationship building across the market. As a senior consultant, Jina leads advisory engagements that help nonprofits with business plans, management tools, needs assessments and financial management coaching. Jina brings over fifteen years experience in both the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, including the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Helene Fuld Health Trust. In addition to her work at NFF, Jina is a Finance Committee member of DanceNYC, which serves New York City’s dance community through advocacy, research and convenings. Jina holds an M.S. from the Milano Graduate School in Urban Policy Analysis where she was awarded the Kaplan Leadership Award for Excellence, and a Bachelors in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University.

Julia Bromka: Associate Director
Julia is an Associate Director in the Capital Partners Group. In this role, Julia prepares high-performing organizations to raise capital in service of changing or growing their business model and impact.  Prior to joining NFF, Julia managed the finance department at Citizen Schools while the organization tripled its operating budget in three years and quadrupled its programs. She also took part in Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Growth Capital Aggregation Project (GCAP), one of Capital Partners pilot engagements, an experience which ultimately led her back to NFF after graduate school. Julia has also consulted to a variety of growing social enterprises including Revolution Foods, a low-income, healthy school lunch provider and Mandela Marketplace, seeding locally owned health-focused businesses in Oakland. She received her B.A. from Bowdoin College and her M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley with a Certificate in Public Health Nutrition.

Kevin Sweeney: Director
Kevin is Director, Midwest Region. His responsibilities include managing NFF's consulting and lending services as well as new business development activities throughout the Midwest. He brings more than 25 years experience as a lending and financial services executive. Most recently, Sweeney served as an independent consultant to NFF, and prior to that, Vice President and senior lender at Fifth Third Bank. He is a member of the Urban Financial Services Coalition Detroit Chapter, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting from Morehouse College and an MBA from Clark–Atlanta University.

Kristin Giantris: Managing Director 
Kristin is Managing Director, Strategy & Innovation, and directs the business development and relationship management efforts for a number of strategic, national partnerships and innovative financing and funding initiatives. Kristin’s professional experience combines 20 years of economic development and debt financing in both the nonprofit and for profit sectors. Prior to joining NFF, Kristin was a Vice President at Citigroup Global Markets in debt origination and came to Citigroup after an initial career in the nonprofit sector, working for an international nonprofit organization, Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance. Kristin earned a Masters Degree in Public Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from Kenyon College.

Melissa Kuzoian: Analyst
Melissa is an Analyst in the Finance and Operations department at NFF. She analyzes internal financials, creates compliance reports for NFF funders, and provides general support to Finance and Administration staff. A graduate of Boston University, she holds a B.A. in Business Administration and Management with a concentration in Finance. In addition to her position at NFF, she works with Brooklyn Grange, an organic farm located on New York City rooftops. Through both positions, she is constantly learning to challenge traditional thinking around solving social issues and generating community impact.

Nancy Nichols: Closing Specialist 
Nancy is a Senior Associate/Loan Closing Specialist in the Financial Services department at NFF and specializes in the preparation and review of loan documentation and the closing of lending transactions.  Nancy spent several years in the Commercial Real Estate Department of Fried, Frank where she supervised the real estate paralegals in complex commercial transactions. She became interested in nonprofit work when she volunteered to become involved in a pro bono project undertaken by the firm that involved the capturing of the historical record of the conflict in Liberia from Liberian refugees for The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In addition, Nancy worked as a paralegal for Loews Cineplex Entertainment Corporation, the owner of Loews Movie Theatres. She has a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from New York University and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with a degree in Zoology. She enjoys studying human anatomy and physiology and is a certified Personal Trainer, presently studying athletic training. 

Nicole Simoneaux: Director 
As Director of Advisory Services for the Western Region, Nicole leads NFF's consulting, education, and advocacy work across the region. Nicole works to determine how NFF can partner with foundations, financial institutions, and nonprofit associations to build stronger nonprofit communities and a more durable safety net of services for the people who rely on them. She also guides NFF's national work in utilizing IRS Form 990 data to analyze financial health trends in specific industries, sub-sectors or geographic regions. Prior to NFF, Nicole worked for five years in grantmaking, government administration and the arts. She served as a program officer at the Minnesota State Arts Board, an arts administrator at the Madison Arts Commission, and was a founding company member of the TEAM theater, a New York city-based theater company. She earned a BFA from New York University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She now serves on the boards of the TEAM theater and Young Audiences of Northern California, and volunteers as an advocate for children in the foster care system with SF CASA, San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates.

Nima Krodel: Associate Director
Nima is an Associate Director in Chicago. She advises NFF’s clients on growth, capitalization, business model restructuring, strategic financial planning and Social Impact Bonds/Pay For Success efforts. Previously, she managed NFF’s New England and Western Region Financial Services business development and loan underwriting. Prior to joining NFF, Nima worked for Goldman Sachs in the Municipal Finance and Infrastructure Group, where she covered non-profit healthcare and government clients. Nima has served on numerous boards and committees, including co-chair for Northern California Grantmakers Emergency Loan Fund, the career development committee of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network, and finance committee member of Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum, a national health policy nonprofit. Nima received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.

Norah McVeigh: Interim Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, Financial Services
Norah is Interim Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, Financial Services. In this role she is responsible for NFF’s investing products which include on and off balance sheet lending, New Market Tax Credits, credit enhancement and asset-building products. She manages staff that oversee financing from origination to portfolio management.  Her portfolio includes a $60 million loan portfolio, and a $231 million NMTC portfolio, among others. She is also responsible for the capitalization, raising investment capital and managing investor relations. Working across the organization she helps develop and operationalize new impact investing products and key partnerships.  Before joining NFF in 1993, she worked at the Housing Development Fund in Stamford, Connecticut. Previously, she worked for International Voluntary Services, where, among other positions, she administered a program in Ecuador that provided assistance to rural communities. Norah holds a Masters in Public and Private Management from The Yale School of Management and a BS from Georgetown University.

Peter Kramer: Manager
Peter is a Manager on the National Advisory Services team. He staffs and manages a number of special projects and initiatives, as well as local advisory services engagements. Most recently, Peter played key roles in developing, testing, and now enhancing and promoting NFF’s new data analysis platforms.  He also manages the Boston-based Catalyst Fund for Nonprofits, a funder collaborative that supports technical assistance for nonprofit collaborations and mergers. Peter spent a year in NFF’s Capital Partners division and previously worked for El Pomar Foundation, a private foundation focused on philanthropy and leadership development in the state of Colorado. Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Spanish Language & Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently serves on the Young Advisory Board and Finance Committee of Brooke Charter Schools.

Rebecca Thomas: Vice President
Rebecca has strategic responsibility for national arts initiatives, funder partnerships and product development efforts that advance NFF’s profitability, visibility and impact. In this role, Rebecca advises nonprofits in areas of financial planning and management, and designs and directs grant programs on behalf of foundations. She is also the architect of Financial SCAN, an online financial data platform developed with GuideStar. Rebecca serves as a spokesperson and advocate for NFF, speaking and writing on issues of nonprofit capitalization.  She is the co-author of The Case for Change Capital in the Arts and Change Capital in Action: Lessons from Leading Arts Organizations.

Before entering the nonprofit sector, Rebecca served as Senior Economics Correspondent for Smartmoney.com, where she covered economic developments and financial markets and appeared as a commentator on CNNfn, MSNBC, and Fox. In her volunteer capacity, Rebecca serves in leadership positions on the boards of the Cultural Data Project and Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre, and is a Finance Committee member of Lark Play Development Center. Rebecca received an MBA from Columbia University and B.A. in French and International Studies from Yale University.

Rebekah Caton: Coordinator
Rebekah Caton joined NFF in March 2013 as Coordinator for the Eastern Region, where she is responsible for coordinating advisory service activities as well as office management. From 2010-2012, Ms. Caton worked as a TEFL instructor with Peace Corps Madagascar and as Program Coordinator for the Alpine Initiatives Village Sustainability Project. She was the Web and Audio Editor for PennSound, an audio poetry archive based out of the University of Pennsylvania, from 2008-2010, and again immediately prior to NFF. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

Rodney Christopher: Vice President
(Currently Senior Fellow, Social Investment Practice, The F. B. Heron Foundation)
Rodney Christopher serves as Vice President, Consulting Services at Nonprofit Finance Fund, where he has been employed from 1992 to 1996 and again since 2001. As one of NFF's most broadly experienced team members, Rodney's clients are both nonprofits and foundations, and he divides his time between custom engagements, client coaching, public presentations, product development and training NFF staff. In the five years between his two stints at NFF, Rodney worked in television production — as Story Coordinator at All My Children and as a Script P.A. on Saturday Night Live. He has an MS in Urban Policy Analysis and Management from The New School and a BA summa cum laude in Social Sciences with a minor in dance and theater from Bard College at Simon's Rock (the nation's first early college), which established a scholarship fund in his name in 2006 to help its students afford study abroad. Rodney is the Board Treasurer for Fractured Atlas, a technology-driven national service organization for artists and arts organizations.

Sandi Clement McKinley: Director
Sandi is NFF’s Director of Advisory Services responsible for overseeing NFF’s consulting services practice in the six-state New England region, while providing strategic direction to the Eastern Region as a whole. Sandi is recognized within NFF and beyond as a thought leader on strategy and effectiveness and is a key member of the national and regional Advisory Services leadership teams responsible for designing program initiatives that meet the evolving needs of both funders and nonprofits.

Sandi brings over 19 years’ experience to NFF, having served in a senior administration capacity for several organizations including the Institute of Contemporary Art, at American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining NFF in 2007 she was an executive-level consultant providing strategic planning and philanthropic advice to major foundations, family offices, corporate foundations and their grantees. Armed with a passionate interest in promoting capital-wise practices that support long-term change, she serves on several nonprofit boards and regularly speaks and writes about the role of mission-driven institutions in the community. Sandi has an MBA from the Simmons School of Management, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Rosemont College.

Stephanie DeVane: Associate Director, Investment Officer
Stephanie is Associate Director, Investment Officer in the Financial Services department at NFF. She is responsible for cultivating and maintaining relationships with capital sources and stakeholders, identifying opportunities and developing innovative solutions in response to market and client needs. Prior to joining NFF, Stephanie worked as an independent consultant providing credit training and risk advisory services to finance professionals and financial institutions. Before that, she had an extensive career in corporate banking including 16 years at CIBC, a leading Canadian financial institution, working in a number of capacities including credit management; leveraged finance; loan underwriting and distribution; and business development, underwriting loans to both midsized and Fortune 1000 companies. An active volunteer for Girl Scouts, Stephanie holds an MBA in Finance from the Atlanta University Graduate School of Business Administration and a BA in Economics from Tufts University.

Steve Hollingsworth: Vice President, Finance & Administration
Steve is Vice President, Finance & Administration for NFF. His career spans some 30 years in the financial service arena. Over the course of those 30 years he has worked in public accounting, for-profit sector treasury management, and non-profit sector accounting and finance. Steve has directed the accounting departments at Victim Services (now Safe Horizons), The American Foundation for the Blind and the American Academy in Rome. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee of NAMI-Rutgers. Steve has a Bachelors Degree from Queens College and has taken numerous accounting and finance courses at the University of Southern California, U.C.L.A, and California State University at Northridge.

Tessa Borelli: Associate
Tessa is an Associate in Program Services at NFF. She provides operational and programmatic support to Advisory Services, Financial Services and Capital Partners in the San Francisco and Los Angeles sites. Prior to joining NFF, Tessa served as the Associate Director of Admission at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to recruit young musicians to one of the nation’s premier conservatories. She also worked for the Youth Leadership Institute as a Training Coordinator, Human Resources Liaison and Assistant to the Vice President of Community Based Programs. Tessa holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Mannes College of Music in New York and a Master of Music Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. 

Whitney Robbins: Manager
Whitney is a Manager for NFF’s Advisory Services team. She is responsible for the management and delivery of client engagements in the Eastern Region. In this capacity, she provides analysis, guidance, and actionable solutions that will strengthen organizations’ ability to deliver their mission in a sustainable manner.  Whitney has worked as a consultant in both the nonprofit and private sectors. She previously served as a business planning consultant for Root Cause and as a financial and litigation analyst at Navigant Consulting.  She holds a BS in Business Management from Babson College.

William Pinakiewicz: Vice President
Bill leads NFF’s consulting practice in the Eastern Region. He specializes in innovative strategic financial management services for nonprofits that support expanded capital access and advance financial sustainability. On the national front, Bill is a senior member of the NFF team working to build the capacity in the U.S. social sector that is required for outcomes-driven, pay-for-success financing approaches, such as the Social Impact Bond. He speaks and writes regularly on these topics, and his commentary has been featured in articles in The New York Times, Institutional Investor Magazine, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and elsewhere. In addition to his experience as an executive and board member in local educational and philanthropic organizations, Bill also brings 20 years of finance and capital markets experience from his career in investment banking and private banking in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Africa to his work at NFF. Bill currently serves as Treasurer of Boston’s Higher Ground, a collective-impact nonprofit inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone.

Yan Li Jiang: Analyst
Yan Li Jiang is an Analyst in Financial Services, whose role includes client communication, financial analysis, market research and data management. Yan is also responsible for assisting in preparing reports and presentations and supporting senior staff in a variety of functions related to delivery of financial products. Prior to joining NFF, she was a Portfolio Manager at the Fund for the City of New York, and provided financial management support to various nonprofit organizations. Previously Yan served as a Senior Loan Consultant at Accion USA, a microfinance organization that provides loans to small businesses in the US. She has also worked in the small business support sector, supporting small businesses in New York City access loans and delivering financial training with the NYC Business Solutions center. Yan earned her BA in Economics from Barnard College, Columbia University.

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