Steering Committee

CPER’s National Steering Committee is comprised of a representative from the Fund’s nine national funders and one local funder from each of the Fund’s four sites, which helps set policies to inform the work of local funders with a national perspective while simultaneously infusing the grantmaking of national funders with an understanding of local context. Below is a list of funders that sit on CPER’s National Steering Committee.

Cyrus Driver, Ford Foundation

Kelly James, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Lori Bezahler, Edward W. Hazen Foundation

Christine Doby, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Geri Mannion, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Alice Ito and Charles Fields, Marguerite Casey Foundation

Shané Harris, The Prudential Foundation

Cassie Schwerner, The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Robert Sherman, Surdna Foundation

Jeff Pinzino, Woods Fund of Chicago

Terri Bailey, The Piton Foundation

Barbara Reisman, The Schumann Fund of New Jersey

Candace Bell, The William Penn Foundation

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