Projects
Experience
A generalist comfortable with diverse issues and movements, Melinda brings experience leading projects in areas including women’s rights and gender justice; education, early childhood, and youth leadership; racial equity; civic participation, community building, and inclusive democracy; systemic health; funder collaboration and movement building; disability; immigrant and refugee rights; Jewish identity; and more. Across her career, Melinda has collaborated with diverse organizations and partners working locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.
Philanthropy
Annenberg Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation
Circle of Service Foundation
Collective Futures Fund
Communities for Public Education Reform Fund
Dewitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund
Early Childhood Funders Collaborative
Early Childhood NYC Literacy Fund, UBS
George Gund Foundation
Grantmakers for Education
Greater Rochester Health Foundation
Jim Joseph Foundation
Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
Maine Access Health Foundation
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
NEO Philanthropy
Open Society Foundations
Proteus Fund
Rockefeller Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Rose Community Foundation
Surdna Foundation
Tannenbaum Foundation
van Ameringen Foundation
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund
Youth Innovation Fund
Non-profit
Academy for Educational Development
American Civil Liberties Union
American Museum of Natural History
Center for Social and Emotional Education
Children’s Express
City Year
Civic Mission of Schools Campaign
Common Cents
Don’t Laugh at Me
East Bay Conservation Corps
Education Development Center
Facing History and Ourselves
Hunting Ground
Imagine Chicago
Judge Baker Children’s Center
National Academy for Education
National Park Service
National Service-Learning Partnership
New Visions for Public Schools
No More Campaign
NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Research Center for Leadership and Action, NYU Wagner School of Public Service
Sesame Workshop
YWCA of New York City