HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY ELECTS THREE NEW MEMBERS TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(San Francisco, October 24, 2005) – Hispanics in Philanthropy, an association of philanthropic professionals dedicated to strengthening Latino communities, announces the unanimous election of three new members to its Board of Directors: Gloria Rubio-Cortes, Marta L. Tellado, and Ana Thompson.
Gloria Rubio-Cortes is the Vice President for External Relations for the Community Technology Foundation of California (CTFC). CTFC invests in community technology for access, equity and social justice for underserved communities in California.
Gloria has more than 20 years of nonprofit experience working at the national level. During her career, she has promoted civil rights, community building, civic engagement and social justice issues. Previous to CTFC, she was a senior manager at the Levi Strauss Foundation, where she was in charge of U.S. national grants and contributions and managed some operations for this worldwide grantmaking program.
Gloria also serves as Board Chair of the National Center for Community Education, as a Steering Committee member of Grantmakers for Film and Electronic Media, and on the Council on Foundations’ Film and Video Festival Awards committee. She has an M.S.J. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.S. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Journalism. At the April 2004 Council on Foundation’s Annual Conference, Ms. Rubio-Cortes received the Disability Funders Network’s William Diaz Impact Award, Grantmaker of the Year.
Marta Tellado currently serves as Vice President for Communications at the Ford Foundation after serving as Vice President for Communications at the Partnership for Public Service in Washington, DC. Marta was formerly Director of Domestic Policy Programs at the Center for National Policy and previously served as President of MLT Strategies, an organization and public policy consulting group she founded whose clients include the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Aspen Institute, the Funder’s Committee for Citizen Participation, the Open Society Institute and The Center for Policy Alternatives. Ms. Tellado held an appointment at the University of Maryland’s James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership as Director of the National Issues Project. She is also a veteran of Capitol Hill, having worked as Director of Issues and Outreach for Senator Bill Bradley and as senior advisor on social policy during his presidential campaign. Prior to her work on Capitol Hill she launched the Aspen Institute’s Domestic Strategy Group, a bi-partisan forum for leaders in business, government and academia to explore common ground on domestic policy issues. She is a Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland’s James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership and sits on the Advisory Board of the Prague Institute for Global Economic Development. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University where she was a Newhouse Teaching Fellow.
As Managing Director, Finance and Administration and Treasurer for the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Ana Thompson is responsible for overall administration, financial planning, accounting and reporting, and risk management as well as oversight of the grant portfolio in conjunction with the Foundation’s Trustees.
Ana brings to her position more than 20 years' experience in financial analysis and management in both the for-profit and nonprofit arenas. Prior to joining the foundation in 2001, she served as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Lutheran Social Services of Northern California, a $4 million, 60-person agency focused on housing and money management services for multiply diagnosed individuals, welfare to work programs, and other social service programs. She also worked in the consulting field with Deloitte Consulting and First Manhattan Consulting Group, advising clients in finance, cost analysis, risk-adjusted pricing models for lending portfolios, and business process redesign. Ana holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School and a B.A. in Slavic studies from Harvard University.
Hispanics in Philanthropy is a transnational network of grantmakers, founded in 1983 on the belief that philanthropy should be more inclusive and responsive to communities of color. HIP’s mission is to serve as a catalyst to increase resources for the Latino and Latin American civil sector, as well as to increase Latino participation and leadership throughout philanthropy. HIP pursues this mission through programs, conferences, publications and research that seek to educate the field of philanthropy about Latino issues and Latin America, to increase the representation of Latinos in the field, and to develop philanthropy from within Latino communities. For more information, please consult their website at www.hiponline.org.