David Blazevich was appointed Senior Program Officer of The Bernard Osher Foundation in October, 2006, and currently oversees grant programs to support lifelong learning and the arts. Prior to joining the Foundation, David was the Director of Foundation Relations and Special Program Initiatives at KQED. David has also served as Director of Development for Larkin Street Youth Center and as Major Gifts Officer for the ACLU Foundation of Northern California. He has been an organizational consultant and volunteer for a broad range of non-profit organizations including the Ninth Street Media Arts Center, the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, the New Conservatory Theatre Center, and Frameline. He has also served as a featured lecturer in the technical writing program at San Francisco State University. David is currently earning his Master of Liberal Arts degree from Stanford University in Palo Alto.

Angie has over 25 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations throughout the Southwest in the areas of planning, program development, fund development, management and administration. Before joining The Health Trust, Angie served as Director of Contracts and Fund Development at the Center for Employment Training in San Jose. From 1990-97, she worked for the Levi Strauss Foundation, conducting corporate grantmaking activities in the tri-state region of Texas, New Mexico and Nevada. Her responsibilities included government/community relations, proposal evaluation, monitoring and due diligence, and identifying strategic grantmaking opportunities in the areas of health promotion/disease prevention, HIV/AIDS and community economic development. Ms. Briones has a BA in Economics from Stanford University and a MPA from San Jose State University.

As vice president of grantmaking, Ellen is responsible for the direction and management of grantmaking throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Ellen joined Peninsula Community Foundation in 1995 and led community endowment grantmaking to local nonprofit organizations. Prior to this, Ellen had worked with nonprofit agencies in San Francisco, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., as a financial analyst for an investment bank and as a newspaper reporter in Raleigh, North Carolina. Ellen holds a master`s degree in public policy from Harvard and a bachelor’s degree in political economy from U.C. Berkeley.

Dr. Darlene Hall is a licensed Psychologist who’s worked clinically and in senior management positions in nonprofit or community mental health settings serving ethnically diverse, low-income, and disenfranchised individuals, couples, families, and groups, including those in LGBT communities. She has taught at the graduate level, provided clinical and diversity trainings in nonprofit and government sectors, and was a Fellow in Community Health at The San Francisco Foundation. Currently, she is a Program Officer with the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund doing grantmaking in the youth development, gay/lesbian, community development, families, and hunger/homelessness program areas. She is also an Executive Committee member of Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy. Darlene also has a part-time psychotherapy practice. She feeds her spirit by playing sports, reading, writing, playing taiko drums, watching Star Trek, volunteering in the community, connecting with others who share her passions, and maintaining integrity while living for social justice.

Janetta Nartey is the Manager of Community and Patient Programs at Genentech and Sr. Program Officer for the Genentech Foundation. She manages Genentech`s corporate giving program and supports the committee responsible for community grants for the Genentech Foundation. Ms. Nartey has more than 20 years experience working with non-profit, corporate and government institutions. Prior to joining Genentech she was executive director of The Family School in San Francisco, a non-profit organization offering employment and training, literacy and child care programs. Before moving to San Francisco, Ms. Nartey was Vice President of Education and Workforce Development Programs at Seattle Goodwill. Her experience in business collaborations and corporate partnerships earned her recognition from the "Welfare to Work" partnership from the Clinton administration. She holds a degree in Liberal Arts/Business Administration from Evergreen State College and is a certified Global Career Counselor Facilitator and Instructor.

Lynne OHara is the President and Executive Director of the Special Hope Foundation, a family foundation that supports the efforts of organizations serving the disabled. As the sole staff member, she worked with a board composed of family and community members to build funding capacity and increase effective grantmaking. She is a member of the Disability Funders Network and Association of Small Foundations where she has presented on Strengthening Organizational Infrastructure. In addition, she has played an active role in the community through her work with Urban Ministries in Palo Alto and Hope for Kids in the San Francisco Bay Area.