2012 National Conference

Managing Director

Fay Hanleybrown leads FSG’s Seattle office and collective impact approach area. She works with private foundations, corporate clients, community foundations and non-profits to discover better ways to solve social problems. Since 2002, Hanleybrown has led over 40 consulting engagements for FSG in the areas of strategy, program design, cross-sector collaborations and evaluation. Recent clients include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, The Ford Family Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Community Center for Education Results. She has published several articles and speaks regularly about philanthropic effectiveness, including collective impact and shared measurement. Prior to FSG, Hanleybrown was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She holds a master's of business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's, cum laude, from Princeton University.

Program Officer

Ken Thompson is a program officer in the Pacific Northwest Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He makes grants in the Initiative’s Education Pathways area where he is lead on the collective impact work in Seattle, an effort to increase educational attainment 'from cradle to college.' Employed at the foundation since 1998, his primary expertise is in youth programs, emphasizing academic support and dropout prevention programs at the K12 and postsecondary levels. Previously, Thompson managed, designed and sunsetted the foundation’s Community Access to Technology grant program, which supported technology access programs in Washington State. Prior to that, he worked on the Foundation’s US Library Program. Before joining the Foundation, he was a librarian, editor and arts administrator.

Thompson received a master's of library and information science from the University of Washington and a master's of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Vice President, Strategy

Alina Turner is the VP, Strategy at the Calgary Homeless Foundation, the organization leading the implementation of Calgary’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness. In this role, she is responsible for building a System of Care focused on ending homelessness, monitoring and evaluation of the Plan to ensure implementation stays on target, adapts to changing conditions, and improves with best practices. She leads the CHF’s research on homelessness, strategic planning, and policy development. Alina also oversees the CHF's $35 million program investments, including allocation, performance management and compliance monitoring. As part of this work, she led the development of CHF’s System Planning Framework, which includes the implementation of common performance and quality assurance standards across funded agencies.

She has worked in a variety of capacities in the academic and non-profit sectors on immigrant, poverty and homelessness issues for 11 years. Alina is also PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Calgary, where her research focuses on immigration, housing careers and housing stress across Calgary migrant communities.