Over the next two weeks on the Nonprofit Build Up®, Nic is talking with Yvonne Moore, the Managing Director of Moore Philanthropy and President of Moore Impact. Yvonne has over 25 years of experience in the government, civil society, and philanthropic sectors to their work in providing strategic and tailored philanthropic advisement and solutions to families, individuals, and institutions. Prior to launching Moore Philanthropy, Yvonne was the Chief of Staff to filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail E. Disney where she oversaw the family’s network of media, philanthropic and advocacy organizations. She ran the family’s private foundation, provide advisement on their personal philanthropic giving, both charitable and political, and led their expansion into international giving in 2008. These episodes are profound.
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About Yvonne Moore:
Founded by Yvonne Moore, Moore Philanthropy and Moore Impact bring over 25 years of experience in the government, civil society, and philanthropic sectors to their work in providing strategic and tailored philanthropic advisement and solutions to families, individuals and institutions.
Prior to launching Moore Philanthropy, Yvonne was the Chief of Staff to filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail E. Disney where she oversaw the family’s network of media, philanthropic and advocacy organizations. She ran the family’s private foundation, provide advisement on their personal philanthropic giving, both charitable and political, and led their expansion into international giving in 2008. With the launch of Moore Philanthropy, Yvonne and her team work with clients to help advance their philanthropy in a way that makes sense for them and the communities they seek to serve, whether they choose to use traditional grantmaking or more complex social investment vehicles. With a particular expertise in cross-border giving and in managing family dynamics, the firm provides a range of client services from formulating giving strategies, conversations with next generation family members, navigating and resolving challenges around family dynamics, as well as grants administration for funds, trusts and foundations.
Over the span of her philanthropic career, Yvonne has grown an impressive network of both colleagues and grantee partners in both the U.S. and abroad and brings those connections to bear in her client relationships. She has successfully forged connections with foreign government officials, built strong relationships with grassroots organizations and community advocates, and successfully co-developed projects in the most challenging of environments, including post-conflict and slum communities, and most recently the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia. Having spent the bulk of her last 18 years focused primarily on the U.S. and Sub- Saharan Africa, she has gained a significant level of knowledge and experience in specific issue areas including economic security, anti-violence and safety, alternative energies, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), education, health, and organizational sustainability and management.
Yvonne has spoken, lectured, moderated conversations, curated programs and written on the topics of philanthropy, diversity in philanthropy, family and next generation philanthropy, the philanthropic ecosystem and African Diaspora philanthropy for New York University, Alliance Magazine, Yale University Philanthropy Day, London School of Economics’ Africa Summit, the Africa Philanthropy Forum, the Global Philanthropy Forum, Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group, the Africa Centre on Philanthropy and Social Investment, the National Center on Family Philanthropy, Philanthropy New York and the Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support (WINGS).
Before joining the philanthropic sector in 1999, Yvonne spent 10 years working in child protection and advocacy and is co-author of the report Bridges to Independence: Improving Transitions to Adulthood for Youth Served by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services. Yvonne holds a BA from Texas Tech University and a MS in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School. She has completed post-graduate studies in democracy and civil society at the University of Cape Town, and nationalism, post-conflict violence and gender at the University of Lower Silesia in Poland.
Yvonne serves as a trustee of The Daphne Foundation, the New York Women’s Foundation (Chair of the Board), Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group, Black Resilience in Colorado (BRIC) Fund and Comic Relief US (Chair of the Grants Committee). She also serves as an advisor to the Accountability Council, Jola House Liberia and the Periwinkle Initiative.