STEPHANIE RAPP

• Provide program strategy, research, grantmaking and fundraising support to foundations, philanthropic advisors, and non-profit organizations

Disaster Preparedness and Resilience

• Created the Fund’s Disaster Preparedness Initiative in 2007, which awarded $6 million to prepare vulnerable communities to respond to earthquakes, climate disaster or other catastrophes
• Co-chaired Northern California Grantmaker’s Disaster Preparedness Initiative, a committee of foundations committed to engaging philanthropy in disaster readiness
• Led the Fund’s largest one-time grant of $900,000 to support Resilient Bayview, a community-designed and led resilience effort in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, that prepares residents for a range of stressors at the intersection of race and climate justice

Jewish Life

• Grew grantmaking portfolio from 23 to 53 grants, awarding a total of $65 million
• Developed funding guidelines with a nationally recognized focus on deepening interfaith cooperation, combatting polarization, and advancing social justice
• Co-created two groundbreaking national funding pools focused on racial justice and interfaith support: one supporting Jews of Color and one advancing Muslim communities, and represented the Fund on these grantmaking committees

• Provided management, fundraising, and communications services to nonprofits and United Nations agencies
• Served as Special Assistant to the Secretary-General for the United Nations Center on Human Settlements
• Organized briefings and events for delegates, NGO’s and housing ministers for the City Summit, a two-week global conference in Istanbul, Turkey with 20,000 participants
• Organized events attended by world leaders for the Japan Society of Northern California’s 50th anniversary of the US-Japan Peace Treaty
• Coordinated press coverage for “Resolve to Stop the Violence Day,” a joint project of the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and San Francisco Giants, for an audience of 20,000

• Managed a department of five staff members
• Led annual fund campaign, awards dinner, foundation support, major donor recruitment, and individual membership for the largest international affairs forum in the western United States
• Created the organization's first corporate membership program to expand its presence in Silicon Valley, recognizing an opportunity to reach new audiences

• Set up a nonprofit corporation which involved developing core programs, raising and administering a $2.5 million budget, and hiring and supervising 20 staff members
• Coordinated ceremonies featuring President Clinton, UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali and 185 ambassadors
• Created a symposium on the U.S role in the UN, broadcast nationally on PBS
• Planned and implemented 107 events in six Bay Area counties over a six-month period
• Organized the drafting of an unprecedented statement on critical world issues signed by 11 Nobel Peace Prize winners and a forum of Nobel Laureates aired on CNN
• Served as San Francisco's liaison to the United Nations, the White House, and the State Department

• Created all marketing and fundraising materials including copywriting, editing, and overseeing design
• Raised annual budget of $2 million and launched a $3 million endowment, one fo the largest for a local nonprofit at the time
• Secured agency's first grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Directly supervised staff of four

• Led over 100 forums on human rights, environment, and security issues
• Supervised six staff members
• Tripled agency budget

• Coordinated event planning and fundraising services for more than 50 Bay Area non-profit organizations