Richard Marker
Leading strategic philanthropy consultant

Richard Marker has been a chief executive of a philanthropic foundation, a professor, a management consultant for both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, and a senior executive of an international not-for-profit. Currently, Marker serves as an advisor to foundations, independent funders, and not-for-profit organizations, and is a Senior Fellow in Philanthropy at NYU's George Heyman Jr. Center for Philanthropy. He specializes in strategic philanthropy and planning. Previously, he was Executive Vice President [CEO] of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, chaired by Edgar M. Bronfman. His other staff and board involvements in the grantmaking world have included organizations and foundations with missions ranging from a global to a local agenda.
Marker has served as Vice President for International Affairs of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Much of his previous career has been connected to higher education. He worked with Hillel for many years at Rutgers, Hofstra, and Brown universities, and as head of its Chicago based mid-west office. When appointed to Brown in 1971, Marker was the first university-employed Jewish chaplain in the Ivy League. In addition to NYU, he has taught at Hofstra, Brown, and Loyola [Chicago] Universities. For several years, he was the president of The Solutions Group, a management consulting firm specializing in the implementation of strategic plans and corporate culture change.
A Philadelphia native, he has academic, rabbinic, and management degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Brown University.

Mirele Goldsmith

Mirele Goldsmith, PhD, is an independent evaluator who helps organizations to use the tools of evaluation to improve their programs. With many years of experience in the trenches as a non-profit manager, she adapts the evaluation process to fit real-world time and resource limitations.
Mirele is an instructor in New York University’s certificate program in grantmaking. Known for her use of active learning methods, she empowers her students to tackle the evaluation challenges facing their foundations.

Jaynie Schultz

Jaynie Schultz is the Vice President of Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center as well as Director of the Howard and Leslie Schultz Family Foundation.  Through her work at the ranch, she is transforming the vision of the business to more deeply understand the ways people can most benefit from meeting together as well as learn from the beautiful land.  The Howard and Leslie Schultz Family Foundation is a leader in the field of Jewish education and innovative ways of building community.  Jaynie has participated in a family philanthropy retreat with Dr. Marker and will share her stories about how their family benefited interpersonally, strategically and philanthropically in the short and long term.