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Charles Casey |
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Mary Gregory |
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Charlie owns and manages PFS. In addition
to his day-to-day management duties, Charlie works as a program
officer for a number of PFS' client foundations, with particular
interests in education, human services, housing, and youth development.
A native of San Francisco, Charlie serves on the Board of Directors
of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC). Charlie
graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in English Literature
and has an M.B.A. from the Owen Graduate School of Management at
Vanderbilt University. He and his wife, Paola, live in San Francisco
with their three young daughters and assorted animals. |
Raised
in San Francisco, Mary has been with PFS since 1998 providing administrative
and program services to foundations. She graduated from Princeton
University and returned to the Bay Area where she held various positions
over the years with a number of nonprofit organizations. In 1996,
she founded Mary’s List, a web-based matching service for
nonprofit organizations seeking consultants, at www.maryslist.net.
She is serving on the Board of Directors of At The Crossroads, a
street outreach program for homeless youth in San Francisco. Mary
and her husband live in the city with their dog, Sazerac, and have
a daughter and son-in-law, Eliza and Ryan, and a daughter, Martha. |
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Annie Yates |
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Hector Melendez |
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| Annie came to PFS in 2005 with over ten years of experience in the environmental field. Most recently, she spent seven years at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Southwest Region Office in San Francisco managing state and tribal pesticide program grants. She holds a B.A. degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and a law degree from University of California at Berkeley. Annie is a member of the State Bar of California. At PFS, Annie serves as Director of the Bella Vista Foundation's Ecosystem Restoration Program, and she manages the GGS Foundation. She lives in Marin County with her husband, two children, and a dog. |
Hector
joined PFS as a Program Officer in 2006. Previously he worked as
a mental health consultant for child development centers throughout
San Francisco and was the executive director of Good Samaritan Family
Resource Center. Hector holds a B.S. in Psychology from UC Berkeley
and an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State. Hector
and his partner, John, live in San Francisco with their French Bulldog,
Bodhi(sattva). |
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Ash McNeely |
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Katarina
Menotti |
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| Ash joined PFS in 2012 as a Senior Program Officer. Ash has been Executive Director of the Sand Hill Foundation (a PFS client) since 2007 and she continues in that role, in addition to supporting other PFS client foundations. In her prior career, Ash worked at The Pew Charitable Trusts, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Peninsula Community Foundation, as well as at several Bay Area performing arts organizations. A native of Philadelphia happily transplanted to California in 1988, Ash has a B.A. in English and Women’s Studies from Vassar College and an M.B.A. in nonprofit administration from Golden Gate University. She serves on the Opportunity Fund board, Horizons Foundation advisory board, and Vassar College Alumnae Interview team. She loves riding horses and hiking, and lives in Burlingame with her spouse, Elisa, their two college-aged children, two dogs and two parakeets. |
Katarina
joined PFS in 2007 after working with the San Francisco-based Morris
Stulsaft Foundation and Sausalito-based Foundation for Deep Ecology.
Born and raised in Slovakia, formerly Czechoslovakia, Katarina speaks
several languages and loves to travel. After graduating from the
Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, Katarina held a teaching
position at the University of Economics and worked as a conference
organizer at the University Hospital’s Neurology Department
in Bratislava. Her first job in the US was as a shoe model in NYC.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and a cat,
and appreciates everything the beautiful Bay Area has to offer.
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Amy Freeman |
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Jessi Misslin |
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Amy joined PFS in 2011 after serving as
a Program Officer for the Walter S. Johnson and Stuart Foundations,
specializing in child welfare and college access and success. Prior
to working in philanthropy, she was the founding Executive Director
of the Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance, a coalition dedicated
to ensuring that transition-aged foster youth have a continuum of
services they need to achieve a healthy and safe transition to adulthood.
A native New Yorker, she has a B.A. in Theater Arts from Fordham
University and her M.A. in Organizational Development from University
of San Francisco. She has been practicing yoga for longer than she
likes to admit, has a great daughter, two cats and lives in Albany. |
Jessi
joined PFS in 2009 as a Program Coordinator. Prior to PFS, Jessi
worked with Summer Search, a non-profit leadership development organization
that works with low-income youth. A Midwest transplant, Jessi earned
a B.S. in Communication Arts from Minneapolis College of Art and
Design. She lives in San Francisco with her partner, Matt, and their
charming baby boy, Ian. In her spare time, Jessi loves to write,
eat, and watch in awe as her son explores the world. |
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Rebecca joined PFS in 2013 as a Program Officer. Rebecca is an
experienced fundraiser, specializing in major gift solicitation.
Before joining PFS, Rebecca consulted to a variety of Bay Area
nonprofits including Creative Commons and Code for America. Rebecca
spent three years with the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization
that owns and operates Wikipedia. She also worked for the Jewish
Community Center of San Francisco and served for six years on
the Board of the Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco. Rebecca
has a B.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University, an M.B.A.
from USF, and is proud to be a product of the San Francisco public
school system. She lives in a little redwood house in San Francisco
with her husband, David, and their two young daughters. |
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