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Board of Directors
Carla Javits
Carla is CEO of REDF, formerly known as The Roberts Enterprise Development Fund. Carla has a deep dedication to helping people move out of poverty and seasoned entrepreneurial leadership. She was previously President of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) for 15 years where she provided leadership of CSH’s systems change and public policy efforts, technical assistance and training, and lending and grant making activities. Prior to joining CSH, Ms. Javits served as the Planning and Policy Director of the San Francisco Department of Social Services (1988-1991) where she helped to craft the City’s policies and programs related to homelessness and supportive housing, entitlement programs and family and children’s services. Carla received a B.A. in Political Science (Phi Beta Kappa) and a Master’s of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Melinda Marble
Melinda is the Executive Director of the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation. Formerly, she was a Senior Associate at TPI where she created the Boston Neighborhood Fellows Program. She also served as Vice President of Program for The Boston Foundation and Associate Director at the Lincoln Filene Center at Tufts University. Before moving to Boston, Melinda was a Program Executive for the San Francisco Foundation and she also chaired the Bay Area Foundations/Corporations Emergency Fund. Melinda has drawn on her experience to develop training programs and material for donors and foundation staff. For the past three years, she had helped the Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts develop its "Insights" series on nonprofit management issues and has led sessions on nonprofit life cycles.
Peter Nessen, Chair
Peter is the founder and president of Nessen Associates. He is a public accountant who has served as Chief Executive Officer and on the governing Board of Advisors for national investment-banking firms. From 1987 to 1990, Peter was Assistant Secretary of Administration and Finance responsible for human and social service purchase reform. From 1991 to 1993, Peter was Secretary of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In that capacity, he was the senior cabinet member and the chief financial officer in Governor Weld’s cabinet. Peter has also been a partner in the accounting firms of BDO Seidman and Henry J. Bornhofft Company, and the Dean for Resources and Special Projects at Harvard Medical School. He chaired the Massachusetts Cultural Council and served on the Governor’s Commission evaluating school reform. Peter holds a BA degree from Dartmouth College and a Master’s in Business Administration from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck Graduate School of Business Administration. He currently serves on the boards of numerous for-profit and non-profit organizations.
Ellen Remmer
Ellen is TPI's President and CEO. Ellen works directly with donor clients - families, independent foundations and corporations - to create focused, strategic giving programs and practical governance structures, and with community foundations and financial services firms to strengthen their capacity to help private donors realize their philanthropic goals. She has developed many of TPI's signature donor learning programs and is a frequent speaker and workshop leader on the subjects of family philanthropy, strategic giving and women as donors. Ellen has worked at TPI since 1993, when her own family foundation benefited from TPI's strategic planning assistance. Ellen also serves as a board member of her family's foundation, which supports programs that help disadvantaged girls take charge of their lives, and a board member of her family's investment company. She is on the Board of Governors of Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy where she chair's the Women's Philanthropy Institute's Advisory Committee, on the steering committee of Boston Funders Supporting Women and Girls and a member of Associated Grantmakers' Program Committee. She also has served as a member of the Council on Foundation's Family Foundation Committee. Ellen is a 1975 graduate of Wesleyan University and received her MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1981. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.
David Squire
David retired from a successful business career at Ansonia Mills, Inc., where he was President and Treasurer, to enter public service as Deputy Director of the Job Corps in the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington D.C. in 1966. Currently, he serves as Trustee, Brandeis University; Board Overseer, Heller Graduate School of Social Policy; Governor, the American Jewish Committee; Member, Institute of Current World Affairs; and Trustee of CJP Disabilities Trust. Until 1980, David served as Vice President for Administration at Brandeis University. Prior to that he was Senior Advisor for Economic, Social and Human Rights Affairs for Department of State at the United Nations.
H. Peter Karoff
Peter is the founder of The Philanthropic Initiative, Inc. He has been responsible for developing TPI's conceptual framework of strategic philanthropy as well as its unique client base. Prior to forming TPI, Peter was in insurance and real estate finance and syndication, serving as CEO. Peter is a Senior Fellow at the Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning. He is also on several corporate boards and has served as Director of Blackside Productions—producer of "Eyes On The Prize"—and on 30 not-for-profit boards, including the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, the New England Aquarium, Business Executives for National Security, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Poetry Series, and Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Peter frequently speaks, and writes on philanthropy; his articles have appeared numerous journals and magazines. He is, as well, a published poet. A 1959 graduate of Brandeis University, Peter received an MFA in Writing from Columbia University in 1988.
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