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Tom David advises foundations and other public benefit organizations on program strategy and design, organizational learning and evaluation. Until August, 2004, he was Director of Organizational Learning and Evaluation at the Marguerite Casey Foundation in Seattle. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of The California Wellness Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of the S.H. Cowell Foundation and Senior Program Officer at the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco. Before beginning his work in organized philanthropy, he was Coordinator of Clinical Research for the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Director of the UCLA Bush Program in Child and Family Policy. He has been a member of the board of Grantmakers in Health and the Advisory Board of the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program. He has also served on the boards of Women and Philanthropy and Northern California Grantmakers, including a term as Chair. He was the recipient of the 2002 Terrence Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy from Grantmakers in Health. He received his Master's in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago.
Since 2004, I have had the privilege to work with the following organizations:
Since 2004, I have had the privilege to work with the following organizations:
- Blueprint Research & Design (San Francisco)
- Blue Shield of California Foundation (San Francisco)
- BTW-informing change (Berkeley)
- The California Endowment (Los Angeles)
- California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland)
- The California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills)
- The Center for the Study of Social Policy (Washington, DC)
- The Colorado Health Foundation (Denver)
- College Futures Foundation (San Francisco)
- The Colorado Health Institute (Denver)
- The Colorado Trust (Denver)
- The Community Clinics Initiative (San Francisco)
- Community Foundation Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz)
- Compton Foundation (San Francisco)
- Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Agoura Hills, CA)
- Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation (Des Moines)
- Empire Health Foundation (Spokane, WA)
- The Family Violence Prevention Fund (San Francisco)
- Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky (Louisville)
- FSG-Social Impact Advisors (Boston)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
- Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund (San Francisco)
- Four Freedoms Fund (New York)
- GIFE (São Paulo, Brazil)
- Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (Washington, DC)
- Grantmakers in Health (Washington, DC)
- Humanity United (Redwood City)
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center (San Francisco)
- Irvine Health Foundation (Irvine)
- James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco)
- Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita)
- Kendeda Fund (Atlanta)
- Langeloth Foundation (New York)
- Metta Fund (Corte Madera)
- Mid-Iowa Health Foundation (Des Moines)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Palo Alto)
- New Field Foundation (San Francisco)
- Northern California Grantmakers (San Francisco)
- Northwest Health Foundation (Portland, OR)
- Noyce Foundation (Palo Alto)
- Open Society Foundations (New York)
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos)
- Playworks (formerly Sports4Kids) (Oakland)
- Public Health Institute (Oakland)
- The SCAN Foundation (Long Beach)
- Sierra Health Foundation (Sacramento)
- Southeastern Council on Foundations (Atlanta)
- Sunflower Foundation (Topeka, KS)
- Tides Foundation (San Francisco)
- United Methodist Health Ministry Fund (Hutchinson, KS)
- Women Donors Network (San Francisco)
- Women's Funding Network (San Francisco)
- Yampa Valley Community Foundation (Steamboat Springs, CO)
