Kari Aanestad, Associate Director, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Alan Cantor, Alan Cantor Consulting
Chuck Collins, Inequality,org, Institute for Policy Studies
Bella DeVaan, Charity Reform Project Director, Institute for Policy Studies
Aaron Dorfman, President, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
Jon Durnford, Datalake
Jeannie Entenza, Professor, University of Minnesota
Geoff Green, CEO, California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits)
Darryl Jones, Professor, Fordham A&M University Law School
Carolyn Karr, retired attorney
Vu Le, writer, NonprofitAF
Ray Madoff, Professor, Boston College Law School
Pete Manzo, President and CEO, United Ways of California
Ruth McCambrige, Editor-in-Chief Emerita, Nonprofit Quarterly
Bethany Snyder, Snyder Strategies

Jon Pratt is co-chair of the Philanthropy Project. A researcher and writer on philanthropic and nonprofit matters, he is the former executive director of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits where he continues as a Senior Research Fellow. Jon co-authored Private Foundation Grants to DAFs:  Attorney General Charitable Trust Oversight Calls for Disclosure of Use of Funds, and co-directs GrantAdvisor.org (a “TripAdvisor” with reviews of foundations). He received his MPA from  Harvard’s Kennedy School and JD from the Antioch School of Law (now the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law).

Jan Masaoka is co-chair of the Philanthropy Project. She recently left her position as CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits) where her work included legislative efforts on philanthropic transparency and regulation of online giving platforms. Previously she was executive director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and wrote Blue Avocado from its inception through 2015. Her books include Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability (Jossey-Bass, with Jeanne Bell and Steve Zimmerman) and Nonprofit HR (Nolo Press).

Kari Aanestad is the Associate Director at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, where she oversees an impressive array of programmatic and research work and administrative oversights. She has a strong background in direct service, fundraising, research, and philanthropy, including as co-director of GrantAdvisor.org. Her research has included several studies of philanthropic practices, including transfers from private foundations to donor-advised funds, including co-authorship of Strategies Toward Equitable Government Grantmaking through Cross-Sector Partnerships featured at the 2024 Urban Institute Symposium.

Chuck Collins is a legend who has researched and spoken out on the racial wealth divide, wealth, tax policies, and structural inequality. He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is the author of the popular book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green); He is co-author, with the late Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth, (Beacon Press, 2003), a case for taxing inherited fortunes. He is co-author with Mary Wright of The Moral Measure of the Economy, a book about Christian ethics and economic life.

Bella DeVaan is the Associate Director of the Charity Reform Initiative and a Co-editor of Inequality.org. Previously she developed policy and communications for campaigns in New York City and Washington State and taught high school students through Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship program.

Aaron Dorfman is President and CEO of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), a research and advocacy organization that “works to ensure America’s grantmakers and wealthy donors are responsive to the needs of those with the least wealth, opportunity and power.” Before joining NCRP in 2007, Dorfman served for 15 years as a community organizer with two national organizing networks, spearheading grassroots campaigns on a variety of issues.

Jeannie Entenza is a lecturer at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She has combined a practitioner background with an academic career in public and nonprofit administration, and received the 2023 Lester M. Salamon Memorial Award for Promising Ph.D. Proposal in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Jeannie spent nine years on staff at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits as the deputy director of public policy.

Geoff Green is CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits), which is a leader in philanthropic reform and sponsor of two prior bills on philanthropic transparency in the California legislature. Prior to CalNonprofits, Geoff was CEO of the Santa Barbara City College Foundation, and served as Executive Director of the Fund for Santa Barbara. He is a former campaign organizer, recovering fundraiser, and has served on a variety of statewide and national boards.

Darryll Jones is a professor of law at Fordham University in Florida and currently serving as the Interim Dean for the College of Law. He is a frequent and thought-provoking commentator on the Nonprofit Professors Law Blog, writing often on the tax code.

Carolyn Karr is a “retired California attorney living in Washington, D.C.” Carolyn’s work has focused on philanthropy and international affairs, and she is a member of the Charity Reform Initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies. She recently authored Promise and Peril: Philanthropy at the Precipice for Inequality.org.

Vu Le is a Seattle-based, nationally beloved writer, speaker, and author of the influential blog Nonprofit AF. He is the former executive director of the Rainier Valley Corps, working with leaders and communities of color, and the former executive director of the Vietnamese Friendship Association. He is a co-founder of Community Centric Fundraising.

Ray Madoff is a professor at Boston College Law School, where she teaches and writes in philanthropy policy, taxes, property, and estate planning. She is the Co-founder and Director of the Boston College Law School Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good. She is a principal architect of the groundbreaking ACE (Accelerating Charitable Efforts) Act, proposed in Congress in 2021 but which did not move forward. She is also the author of Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead (Yale University Press). Her forthcoming book is The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made a New American Aristocracy.

Attorney Pete Manzo is President and CEO of United Ways of California, former Senior Fellow at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and former executive director of the Center for Nonprofit Management of Southern California. Pete is a well-known researcher and commentator on a range of issues affecting nonprofits, philanthropy, and the law.

Ruth McCambridge is best known as the founder of Nonprofit Quarterly and its editor-in-chief for more than 20 years. She co-founded Nonprofit Financial Commons and also serves as its Director of Content. Through many channels, Ruth has found ways to challenge the status quo and make the case for equity, justice, and common sense.