PHILANTHROPY SHERPAS
Guides, Porters & Planners For Your Nonprofit Adventures.
WHO WE ARE
Julia Kittross
Julia Kittross has twenty-five years of experience in philanthropy as a teacher, advisor, organizer, program designer, manager, grantmaker, CEO and entrepreneur. She has worked with hundreds of trustees, donors and staff of private foundations, individual philanthropists, public and community foundations and corporate grantmakers. Julia's experience ranges from start-up bootstrapping to organizational management. Career hightlights include working as the first full-time CEO of Philanthropy Northwest (a multi-state regional association of grantmakers), founding partner of The Giving Practice and Executive Director of the Laird Norton Family Foundation.
Julia is one of a small group of consultants trained by the National Center for Family Philanthropy to lead family foundations through its Pursuit of Excellence Assessment.
Julia is one of a small group of consultants trained by the National Center for Family Philanthropy to lead family foundations through its Pursuit of Excellence Assessment.
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Ted Lord
Some of the roads Ted Lord has traveled as guide and porter include serving as Executive Director of Humanities Washington, the statewide affiliate of the NEH, from 2006-2008. He worked for five years as a partner in Philanthropy Northwest's Giving Practice, working with foundations, families and businesses as they establish or retool their giving programs. Prior to that he served as Seattle University's Interim Director of the Masters in Nonprofit Leadership and as adjunct faculty in the Masters in Public Administration. From 1992 through 2000 Ted was Executive Director of the Pride Foundation where he helped increase grants and scholarships from $35,000 to over $600,000 annually Ted has served on community boards including United Way, Executive Alliance, and the Northwest Development Officers Association. The Greater Seattle Business Association named him Community Leader of the Year in 1999, and he was an inaugural New Ventures in Philanthropy Fellow for 2003. A practicing poet, his work appears in over 40 literary magazines.
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Happy Clients Include
Julia:
Alaska Children’s Trust
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Boeing Company
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Kirkpatrick Family Foundation
Laird Norton Family Foundation
The Medina Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Nesholm Family Foundation
New School Foundation
Premera Blue Cross
The Sherwood Trust
Washington Health Foundation
Howard S. Wright Family Foundation
WYCO Fund & family philanthropies
Alaska Children’s Trust
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Boeing Company
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Kirkpatrick Family Foundation
Laird Norton Family Foundation
The Medina Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Nesholm Family Foundation
New School Foundation
Premera Blue Cross
The Sherwood Trust
Washington Health Foundation
Howard S. Wright Family Foundation
WYCO Fund & family philanthropies
Ted & Julia (in photo taken by Ted's 6th grade son, Henry.)
Ted:
Cancer Lifeline
Child Care Resources
Dade Human Rights Foundation (Miami)
Executive Alliance
Girl Scouts (Phoenix)
Hedgebrook
Microsoft
Philanthropy Northwest
Rainier Scholars
Russell Investments
Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage)
Foss Family Foundation
Spruce Street School
Starbucks
Whatcom Community Foundation
Cancer Lifeline
Child Care Resources
Dade Human Rights Foundation (Miami)
Executive Alliance
Girl Scouts (Phoenix)
Hedgebrook
Microsoft
Philanthropy Northwest
Rainier Scholars
Russell Investments
Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage)
Foss Family Foundation
Spruce Street School
Starbucks
Whatcom Community Foundation