Our Partners
Alexa is the co-founder of Open Impact, a strategic advisory firm partnering with exceptional social change leaders to envision, design and accelerate their impact. Her work focuses on strategic advising and planning, leadership development, and speaking and teaching. She is a co-author of the groundbreaking report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy, which has been featured in over 50 media stories since its release in Fall 2016.
Kim Meredith is Chief Executive Officer of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation effective June 15, 2020. Meredith is chief strategist, fundraiser, and advocate for one of the country’s top public hospitals, the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. She oversees every aspect of the Foundation and works closely with the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. She is the former Executive Director and a current board member of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.
Lindsay is a seasoned social sector leader currently serving foundations, philanthropists and donor collaboratives as an independent consultant. Lindsay's work ranges from grantmaking, to initiative design and management, to providing training and support on effective philanthropic practice. Before opening her consulting practice, Lindsay served as the Program Officer for Philanthropy Grantmaking at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and as Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2).
David Vasquez is an accomplished leader who continuously seeks to leverage his multidisciplinary background to create innovative solutions at the intersection of business, policy, and social impact. He has held positions at prestigious companies such as Bain & Company, Bank of America, Ares Management, Redesign Health, and Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO). He also served in the Office of the Governor of California (Newsom Administration) as Special Assistant to the Senior Advisor on Social Innovation where he focused on public private partnerships across the state. David was a member of the 2018 Inaugural Cohort for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program at Stanford University where he received both his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Public Policy (MPP). He also has a B.A. in Financial Economics from Columbia University.
Keith Calix is a Samvid Scholar for leaders and changemakers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a U.S. Latino Leadership Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership. His work focuses on increasing access to meaningful educational and economic opportunities for vulnerable students and families. Keith is an award-winning educator with experience in grantmaking, strategic advising and philanthropic planning.