New Philanthropy Advisors is team of nationally and internationally recognized women consultants bringing high net worth women donors at any stage of their philanthropic journey a team approach to building a personal or family giving plan.  NPA consultants offer clients philanthropic expertise, plus deep knowledge in subject areas of particular interest to many women:  women and girls’ health, education, and economic development; social justice and advocacy, and the environment.

Sara writes and presents nationwide on Women’s High Engagement Philanthropy. She began to address the needs of an emerging group of energized, involved women donors in 2006.  In 2007 she founded New Philanthropy Advisors to empower women and their families with information, resources, technical guidance, and connections to the best non-profit organizations and leaders. In addition to developing customized giving plans, Sara and the NPA team create family retreats and domestic and international site visits, as well as offering group workshops nationwide on Women’s High Engagement Philanthropy.  

 

Elizabeth Share, Senior Advisor

Philanthropy and International Grantmaking

Elizabeth has been helping helping donors and nonprofits increase the impact of their work in communities worldwide for over ten years. Among the private clients she has worked with are the Isabel Allende Foundation, Khaled Hosseini Foundation, The Chez Panisse Foundation, Grace Family Foundation and Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation.

Prior to founding her own philanthropic advisory practice,  Elizabeth was a financial analyst in the capital equipment leasing industry, pricing leases, limited partnerships and leveraged buyouts. She also enjoyed ten years serving as the vice president of the Autodesk Foundation, a publicly supported 501(c)(3) associated with Autodesk, Inc., the nation’s fifth largest software manufacturer. In that role, she gained direct executive experience overseeing the nonprofit’s operations and finances, and collaborated with the president on major programmatic, strategic, personnel and funding decisions. During her tenure there she facilitated a network of corporate funders (e.g., Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Charles Schwab, Arthur Andersen) that, as a result, were able to share crucial information and develop collaboratively funded philanthropic initiatives.

From 1996-2002 Elizabeth served as a board member of CompassPoint, the premier technical assistance provider to San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley nonprofits. Currently, Elizabeth simultaneously serves as the development director for Bread & Roses, as principal of her own consulting firm, and as board vice-president for Congregation Rodef Sholom in San Rafael, California.

JoAnn Dunaway, Senior Advisor

JoAnn is a consultant on public health ventures and enterprises in the developing world.   She has worked throughout Asia bringing together local businesses, health researchers, and funding organizations to build sustainable solutions to health-related problems.  In recent years she has helped coordinate global experts to address indoor air pollution caused by poor quality cooking systems (open fires, unimproved stoves, contaminated fuel, poor ventilation) a plague afflicting approximately half the households in the world and leading to disease and death for millions of women and children each year.  JoAnn has led teams for IBM in  international marketing and business development and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where she created the International Business Development course for MBAs. She was also the Business School’s Director of Major Gifts.  She subsequently consulted with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and with a number of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations on innovative global health interventions.  JoAnn is an avid open water rower, speaks Italian, and lives with her husband Ray in Sausalito, CA.