Donor organizations: What you need to know

Abstract

Before joining the NAF in 1999, Ms. Ferree was the program officer at the Foundation for Enhancing Communities, a community foundation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In this capacity, she was responsible for managing all donor advised and discretionary grantmaking as well as scholarships. She was also responsible for four special initiatives and served as the program officer liaison for three regional community foundation affiliates. Ms. Ferree holds a Bachelors degree in Family Studies with a minor in Gerontology from Messiah College and a Masters degree in Community Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. Her professional interests include building strategic philanthropic relationships with corporations, foundations, and individuals to address public health issues. Her research interests include identifying the social determinants of sexual onset and HIV risk among adolescent girls and using that information to create prevention interventions, the translation of evidence-based HIV prevention programs into broad community application, the impact of societal attitudes and norms on the aging process and the self-concept of women, and finding ways to build bridges across public and private funding silos as well as between academic institutions and community-based organizations. © 2010 Springer-Verlag New York.