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Ellen Remmer
Ellen Remmer is President and CEO of The Philanthropic Initiative, Inc. 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. Among the many publications Ellen has authored are: What’s a Donor to Do? The State of Donor Resources in America Today; Philanthropy for the Wise Donor-Investor: A Primer for Families on Strategic Giving; Raising Children with Philanthropic Values; Making a Difference: Evaluating Your Philanthropy; Passion: Discovering the Meaning in Your philanthropy; When Giving is Gaining: A Strategic Approach to Philanthropy, a chapter in the book Wealthy & Wise (Secrets About Money) and The Dynamics of Women and Family Philanthropy, a chapter in The Transformative Power of Women’s Philanthropy, 2006). Ellen has worked at TPI since 1993, when her own family foundation benefited from TPI’s strategic planning assistance.
Prior to TPI, Remmer worked as a corporate strategic planning consultant at the firm of Temple, Barker and Sloane (now Oliver Wyman), where she provided strategic planning counsel to companies and government agencies. Ellen currently serves as a board member of her family's foundation, which supports programs that help disadvantaged girls take charge of their lives, and her family business, EHR Investments. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Associated Grantmakers and on the Board of Visitors of Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy, and has served as a member of the Council on Foundation’s Family Foundation Committee.
Ellen completed a Bachelors of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1975 and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1981. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her husband Chris Fox and their two children.
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