The Collaboration Conference 2015

Josh Miller is a Senior Program Officer at the Jim Joseph Foundation. In addition to managing a portfolio of major grants, Josh also oversees the Foundation's multi-year effort to develop and invest in new models for community-based Jewish education for teens through a joint collaboration with local and national funding partners. Josh's areas of interest include the development of effective multi-funder partnerships, strategic investment in organizational capacity building for the Foundation's grantees, and evaluating collective impact initiatives.

Josh brings direct field expertise to the Foundation's grantmaking work from his fifteen years as an experiential educator, community builder and social entrepreneur in a range of settings. Josh holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA from Brown University. When he isn’t working, Josh enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons hiking, biking, cooking, making music, and volunteering at his kids' schools.

Lisa is in her 18th year directing Rose Community Foundation’s Jewish Life grantmaking. She has stewarded over $54M in grants and created many collaborative initiatives including BUILDing Jewish ECE, The Endowment Challenge, Rose Youth Foundation, Roots & Branches Foundation, BOOST (Building Organizational Operating Strength Together), Live On: Build Your Jewish Legacy, and MazelTot.org. A consultant to nonprofits prior to joining the Foundation, she has also authored Nonprofit Piggy Goes to Market and was the editor of Apples & Honey, a newsletter for young parents about creating a Jewish home. Lisa and her husband David are parents of two sixth-generation Denverites and have three grandchildren.

At the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF), Canada's largest grantmaker, Arti Freeman turns ideas into high impact investments that build local communities and sector capacity. Skills in collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge-sharing make it possible for her to innovate in different contexts from engaging youth and their partners in a collective process of emergence, resulting in a community of practice that accelerates the conditions for youth-led organizing, to partnering with Indigenous groups, the corporate, public, and philanthropic sectors to develop a collaborative and culturally appropriate granting program that supports the social and environmental wellbeing of Indigenous youth and their communities. Most recently, Arti applied Design Thinking to bring shape to two of the Foundation's strategic funds. The outcomes of her experiments with different models of high impact philanthropy have been written about in the OTF publication, Sector in Conversation, in the quarterly journal, The Philanthropist, and by the coalition, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. Arti has been recognized by the Foundation for her excellence in collaboration and innovation. Arti has lived and worked in many countries including the Philippines, India, Belgium and South Africa, and now lives with her husband in St. Catharine's, Ontario.