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Angelique Power, President & CEO, The Skillman Foundation, Detroit, MI
Angelique leads The Skillman Foundation, a Detroit-based private independent foundation that puts all of its resources toward brilliant Detroit youth—their justice, their power, and their promise.
With assets over $550 million, The Skillman Foundation provides approximately $22 million in grants annually. Under Angelique’s tenure, The Skillman Foundation has led a community-rooted strategic planning process to rethink its grantmaking, metrics, and partners. Power architected a racial equity audit internally of all grants, operations, and the endowment, allowing for transparency and accountability to community as well as mission-alignment in all policies and practices.
Prior to The Skillman Foundation, Power was president of the Chicago-based Field Foundation and a program director at the Joyce Foundation. Additionally, she led communications and community engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and community relations efforts across the nation for Target Corporation.
Power chairs the board of 6018North and serves as a board member for CultureSource and Detroit Public Theatre. She serves on Mayor Duggan’s Workforce Development Board. Angelique has a BA from University of Michigan and both an MFA and an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.


Dorothy Fleisher, Ph.D., MPA, MSW, Senior Program Director, W.M. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Dorothy leads the Southern California Program of the W. M. Keck Foundation, a national philanthropy focusing on pioneering research in science and medicine and programs that enrich the lives of children, youth and families in Southern California. Her primary responsibility is overseeing grantmaking in the areas of arts and culture, civic and community services, health care, precollegiate education, and early childhood development. She has been with the Foundation since 1999.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Fleisher worked for the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, where she launched several major initiatives, including a network of school-based family centers. Currently, she is a founder and member of the L.A. Partnership for Early Childhood Investment, and a steering committee member of Southern California Grantmakers Foster Care Funders Collaborative.
In 1996 she was honored by the California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers as Social Worker of the Year, and in 1998 she was a recipient of the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles’ Incredible Woman Making History Award. She earned her doctorate in Social Work from the University of Southern California with a focus on social policy and administration.


Eric Pearson, President and CEO, El Paso Community Foundation, El Paso, TX
Eric has led the El Paso Community Foundation since 2011. He is a native El Pasoan who came up through public schools and the University of Texas at El Paso, and worked for about 20 years in broadcast journalism and media prior to joining the El Paso Community Foundation in 2003. He has worked to engage the El Paso Community Foundation in solid leadership projects.
Grants, community convening, and leadership projects define the El Paso Community Foundation. The Foundation has grown since 1977 to approximately $195 million in assets, and in the process has given more than $249 million in charitable gifts and projects to West Texas, Southern New Mexico and northern Mexico.
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Angela Richardson, Senior Trainer, The Grantsmanship Center
Angela brings more than 20 years' experience as a nonprofit program and fund developer, strategic planner, and organizational coach. As senior trainer, Angela has coached other trainers for The Grantsmanship Center and trained staff for nonprofit organizations, school districts, governments, faith-based organizations, and colleges and universities. She brings additional expertise in education and the arts, recently delivering a virtual workshop for Broward County Cultural Division, FL as part of the Business Skills for Creatives series. Angela has facilitated many in-person Meet-the-Grantmaker panels in Los Angeles for PROJECT GRANTSMANSHIP and for the City of Los Angles, city council members. Recently, Angela trained faculty and community-based nonprofit leaders as part of a Research Proposal Workshop sponsored by UCLA Health Sciences.
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