Board of Directors
GMN is governed by a board of directors elected by GMN’s membership. Learn more about our leadership and governance in our bylaws.
Kim Armstrong
Foundation Program Coordinator
Mutual of Omaha Foundation
Omaha, NE
Kim is a Foundation Program Coordinator with the Mutual of Omaha Foundation. She has been with Mutual of Omaha since 1997, and in her current role since 2003. She serves as the liaison between the Foundation and grant seekers; manages the grants database and grantmaking process; and reviews and remains current on issues and trends in philanthropy and the specific program areas of interest to the Foundation. Kim has played a significant role in the development of the Foundation, as well as in the creation of the Foundation’s long-term focus.
Kim lives in Logan, Iowa with her husband Mark and their daughters, Payton and Jordan. When not working and spending time with her family, Kim also serves on the board of Omaha nonprofit Youth Emergency Services. She also enjoys her hobby of singing rock and roll in a cover band.
Kim joined the Grants Managers Network in 2005.
Term Ending: June 2014
Dolores Estrada
Manager of Grants Administration
The California Endowment
Los Angeles, CA
Dolores Estrada joined The California Endowment in 1999 and is currently the Manager of Grants Administration. In her current capacity, Ms. Estrada oversees the administrative functions and policies of the foundation’s online grant-making process, and provides guidance on issues of tax and legal compliance review.
Prior to joining The Endowment, Ms. Estrada was the Administrative Assistant for Administration for the Georgetown University Law Library in Washington, D.C. where she provided primary administrative support to the Director of the Law Library and the Associate Librarian for Administration.
Ms. Estrada’s commitment to community are exemplified by her current participation on various boards of directors and steering committees, including her service as an online board member for the Youth and Press Development Organization, member of the steering committee for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (Los Angeles Chapter), member of Hispanics in Philanthropy, and member of the Grants Managers Network.
A resident of Los Angeles, Ms. Estrada is the recipient of the 2009 Emerging Leader Award from the Joint Affinity Group. She earned her B.A in History from California State University, Northridge, and her M.A. in Liberal Studies with an emphasis on International Relations from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Term Ending: June 2015
Sue Fulton, Co-Chair
Grants and Financial Manager
Endowment for Health
Concord, NH
Sue Fulton is responsible for grants and financial management for the Endowment for Health. In this role, she oversees the grant application process, grant budgets, and grantee progress reporting. She works closely with applicants and grantees to ensure that inquiries and projects are handled appropriately. Sue is also responsible for managing the financial and accounting activities for the organization.
The Endowment for Health was created in 1999 following the sale of Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire to Anthem Insurance Companies. Sue was hired in early 2001 as one of the first employees and was responsible for setting up grantmaking and operating systems.
Sue joined the Grants Managers Network in 2006 and serves on the GM Guide, Audit, Conference and Body of Knowledge teams. She has also been an active member of the GMN New England Regional Group (originally a GIFTS User Group) since 2001. She was elected to the Board of Directors in 2009.
Term Ending: June 2013
Roger Fuse Brown
Atlanta, GA
Roger Fuse Brown served as the Director of Grants Management and Investment Operations for the Compton Foundation, based in San Francisco, California. He brings experience from both the non-profit and for-profit sectors where he has worked to advance the ideals of social justice, education, and community service. At the Compton Foundation, Roger was responsible for grants administration, finance, and overseeing the Foundation’s investment portfolio, including aligning its “Mission Related Investments” with the Foundation's program objectives.
Prior to joining the Compton Foundation, Roger worked with foundations, non-profits, and in technology. He was the Executive Director of the Strayer University Educational Foundation; served in both the programmatic and administrative management of City Year, a national youth service organization; and helped build online social networking sites for colleges and universities while at Mascot Network.
Roger has been an active member of GMN since 2009 and currently serves on the Finance Committee. He has recently relocated to the Atlanta area.
Term Ending: June 2014
Jonathan Goldberg
Director of Systems and Communications
Surdna Foundation
New York, NY
Jonathan Goldberg is the Director of Systems and Communications at the Surdna Foundation where he has worked since March, 1997. In that capacity he oversees the grants application, review and payments processes, information technology issues, and communications for the foundation.
Jonathan has served as Treasurer and Co-Chair of the Grants Managers Network (GMN), and is a member of the Technology Affinity Group of the Council on Foundations. He has been involved in Project Streamline, a project of GMN, from its inception, helping to develop standards to streamline the application and reporting process for nonprofits seeking grants.
Before coming to Surdna, Jonathan spent over 12 years with the New York State Council on the Arts, first as a program analyst in the Music and Electronic Media and Film Programs making grant recommendations, and later as Director of Information Systems. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Masters in Arts Administration and Business at New York University.
Term Ending: June 2015
Nancy Herzog
Co-Director of the Grantmaking Resource Center
National Endowment for Democracy
Washington, D.C.
Nancy Herzog is the Co-Director of the Grantmaking Resource Center at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), where she has worked since December 1994. In this role, she coordinates the processes among the various departments involved in a large international grantmaking program which issues more than 1,100 grants per year and oversees the use of the grant information system. Her department is charged with bringing best practices in grantmaking to NED, identifying opportunities for efficiencies, and implementing process changes.
Nancy has served as co-chair of the DC Regional Chapter of GMN, is a member of the Webinar committee, and has been a GMN member since 1998. She is also a member of the National Grants Management Association and earned the credential of a Certified Grants Management Specialist. She has a B.A. in Russian Studies from Wesleyan University, and a M.A. in International Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Term Ending: June 2014
Melanie Matthews
Director of Capacity Building & Operations
Campion Foundation
Seattle, WA
Melanie Matthews is Director of Capacity Building & Operations at the Campion Foundation, a family foundation dedicated to protecting the wildest places in the western USA and Canada, ending homelessness in Washington State, and building a strong and resilient nonprofit sector. Melanie is responsible for all Foundation operations, including grants management, and is the lead staff for the capacity building program. This program aims to build the capacity of the Foundation’s grantees and to build a strong and resilient nonprofit sector within which grantees can thrive.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Melanie served as managing director of The Empty Space Theatre in Seattle, and managed Kneehigh Theatre—one of the UK’s top theatre companies—and Malvern Theatres, a three-venue arts center in the UK, transforming it through a multi-million dollar redevelopment program.
Melanie holds an MBA from Colorado State University and BA (Hons) from Bristol University in the UK. She is an active member of Grants Managers Network, serving as Co-Chair of the Pacific Northwest Chapter, and is a proud board member of Shunpike, a nonprofit support organization which helps all kinds of small and mid-sized arts groups better manage the business aspects of art.
Term Ending: June 2014
Marcus McGrew, Co-Chair
Director of Grants Management
The Kresge Foundation
Troy, MI
Marcus McGrew is the Director of Grants Management for The Kresge Foundation, a national private foundation based in Troy, Michigan. As Director, he is accountable for developing and streamlining processes and procedures to achieve optimal operations, managing data integrity to foster informed decision making, measuring and reporting payout progress against grant budget, ensuring legal compliance, and leading the implementation of the new grantmaking process under delegated authority.
Prior to joining the Kresge Foundation, Marcus was the Wayne County Community College District Associate Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance. In this role, he provided forward leadership for the financial aid and compensation functions that serve annually 70,000 students and 1,800 employees, respectively.
Marcus holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of South Alabama, and a Master of Business Administration in Integrative Management from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University.
Term Ending: June 2015
Carol Miller
Grant Manager
Greater Texas Foundation
Bryan, TX
Carol Miller is the Grant Manager for Greater Texas Foundation in Bryan, Texas. Carol joined the foundation in July 2007 as its first grant manager. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the grants management process and developing/maintaining the foundation’s procedures for best practices in grantmaking. She also works to integrate the use of technology for maintaining grant information and in particular for the foundation’s online grant application process.
With more than ten years’ experience in grantmaking, Carol previously worked as the Grants Management Coordinator for the John Templeton Foundation located outside Philadelphia, PA.
Carol received her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Shippensburg University. After working in her field for several years, she happened upon employment in the world of philanthropy and has maintained that career path ever since.
Outside of work, Carol enjoys anything that has to do with her two dogs.
Term Ending: June 2014
Ericka Novotny
Senior Grants Manager
Arcus Foundation
New York, NY
Ericka Novotny recently joined the Arcus Foundation as its Senior Grants Manager where she oversees grantmaking processes and procedures; compliance, and grants management functions, including complex international grantmaking environments. In addition, Ericka is responsible for leading a team of grants management staff; trainings; producing reports for grant data analysis, and acts as a department liaison with Finance and Communications.
Ericka brings a wealth of grantmaking knowledge from her work at the Annenberg Foundation where she was a member of senior management and oversaw all operations of the grants management department. Additionally, Ericka began her career in philanthropy with the Getty Foundation where she worked on various internship programs, resulting in the placement of hundreds of undergraduate and graduate interns at arts organizations throughout Los Angeles County. Prior to this, Ericka worked in the advertising/marketing field in Minneapolis and Chicago.
Ericka is an active volunteer member of the Grants Managers Network and currently serves on the Board and Co-Chairs the Nominating Committee.
As a Minnesota native and transplanted Angeleno, Ericka conducted her undergraduate and graduate studies at the College of Saint Benedict/St. John’s University and Antioch University, Los Angeles.
Term Ending: June 2013
Jennifer Pedroni, Treasurer
Vice President of Administration
North Penn Community Health Foundation
Colmar, PA
Jennifer Pedroni joined the North Penn Community Health Foundation as Finance Manager and Grants Administrator in 2003, shortly after the Foundation’s inception. Jennifer is responsible for managing staff operations and leading the areas of finance, budget, grants management, information systems, human resources and facilities. In 2010 she was promoted to the Vice President of Administration in recognition of her significant contributions to the foundation’s development and maintenance of its internal systems, grantmaking operations and the Community Partners Center for Health and Human Services, a 24,000 square foot multi tenant non-profit center that was created and managed by the foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Jennifer was the Financial Administrator at the Annenberg Foundation in St. Davids, Pennsylvania where she was responsible for the accounting department and developed and strengthened the grants management function. She has worked as a consultant for a local school district and educational foundation researching available funding for enhanced educational programs.
Jennifer has been a member of the Grants Managers Network since 1998 and has been an active participant in the Delaware Valley Chapter since its inception in 2004. She was elected to the GMN board in 2009. As treasurer, she leads the GMN Finance Committee and serves on the Fundraising and Audit Committees.
She earned a degree in Accounting from Temple University and began her career at Coopers and Lybrand in Philadelphia, earning her CPA in 1990. Jennifer is active in her local community serving on the board of organizations and committees that support the education and health and human service needs of the community.
Term Ending: June 2013
Tiffany Price, Secretary
Director of Assistance & Advising
Kapor Center for Social Impact
San Francisco, CA
Tiffany Price is the Director of Assistance & Advising for the Kapor Center for Social Impact where she provides capacity building support beyond the grant to the foundation’s grant recipient organizations. She also serves as the foundation’s grants manager, overseeing all grantmaking processes including grant applications and final reporting, managing the CyberGrants database, and other responsibilities. Prior to this position, Tiffany spent two years as the Education Program Fellow for The San Francisco Foundation where she helped manage the education grantmaking portfolio for the foundation. Tiffany also has six years of experience in education policy research and evaluation. This includes experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods and contributions to multiple national and local research and evaluation projects on K-12 education reform.
Tiffany holds a M.A. in International Comparative Education from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and International Studies from Emory University.
Term Ending: June 2015
Patrick Taylor
Grants Assistant
The Energy Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Patrick Taylor has been Grants Coordinator at the Energy Foundation since 2008. His duties include tracking, processing, and monitoring the U.S. and China Program grants, compiling and editing materials for the board docket, and training staff on grantmaking best practices. He has been a member of GMN since 2008. He served on the Conference Committee in 2008, and was Co-Chair of the GMN Grantmaking Gone Green committee from 2010 to 2012.
Patrick has a Master’s degree in History from San Francisco State University, and a Master of Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco.
Patrick spent two years studying history in Italy, and spent a year in Bulgaria with the Peace Corps.
Term Ending: June 2014
Rebecca Van Sickle
Director of Grants Management
The Atlantic Philanthropies
New York, NY
Rebecca Van Sickle is the Director of Grants Management for The Atlantic Philanthropies. Rebecca is responsible for the effective and efficient management of grants and the grants management database and focuses on process improvement with an emphasis on service delivery and spend-down planning, including analyzing grants data to inform planning and decision making by senior leadership. As of December 2009, The Atlantic Philanthropies has awarded more than $5 billion in grants.
Prior to Atlantic, Rebecca was the Grants Manager at the Citi Foundation, the corporate foundation for Citigroup, Inc, where her team was responsible for reviewing and monitoring more than 2,700 grants annually for organizations in more than 100 countries. Rebecca started her career in philanthropy at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation as a Program Assistant, working with all of the foundation’s program areas to promote best practices and later as a consultant to improve the design and use of the foundation’s evaluation database.
Rebecca received a B.S. from Northwestern University and a MBA at Cornell University. She has served as a board member of the New York chapter of GMN and is an active alumna of Northwestern and a member of Northwestern’s Council of 100, a mentoring group for women.
Term Ending: June 2013
Cristina Yoon
Grants Manager
The Skoll Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
Cristina is the Grants Manager at the Skoll Foundation in Palo Alto, California, where she is responsible for managing all aspects of the administration and legal compliance of the Foundation’s grantmaking policies and procedures. To date, the Foundation has awarded over 1,000 grants totaling $270M.
Prior to joining the foundation, Cristina spent several years in internet and new media industry focusing on content delivery and user interface design. She worked at Stanford University as an online producer and at Walt Disney Internet Group GO.com as an information architect.
Cristina earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women and Gender Studies and a minor in Film Studies at the University of California at Davis. Her interest led her to South Korea, where she studied and worked at a national organization promoting gender equality and women’s human rights.
Cristina has been an active member of the Grants Managers Network since 2003 and was the Chair of the Northern California Chapter from 2007 to 2009. In 2009, she was elected to her first term on the Board of Directors and currently serves on the Nominating Committee and the Online Community Team.
Term Ending: June 2013