Having worked at the intersection of philanthropy and diverse communities engaged in social justice work for over 20 years, Sarita brings a mission-driven perspective to the strategic management and day-to-day operations of NFG. Her approach to overseeing NFG’s development, finance, human resources, and operations is grounded in a vision of a philanthropic sector that is truly accountable to movements for racial justice and equity.

Sarita’s background includes positions with The San Francisco Foundation, The California Endowment, The Ford Foundation, and Asian Law Caucus; and providing consulting expertise to foundations, affinity groups, and other nonprofits on fundraising, program design, grantmaking, research and evaluation, and organizational development.

She currently serves as Treasurer of the RYSE Center in Richmond, California, and in the past has served on the boards of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition, Narika, and the California Vipassana Center. Sarita holds an MA in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Political Science from Northwestern University.

Amy leads NFG’s first-ever grantmaking effort, the Amplify Fund. She has spent her career working for social justice, and is compelled by the Fund’s purpose to build the power, influence, and direct decision-making authority of communities of color and low-income communities to self-determine their futures.

Amy joined the Amplify team in late 2017, but was previously part of the NFG family as a board member and active participant in Funders for Justice during her time as a Program Officer at the Surdna Foundation from 2010-2014. In addition, she spent three years as the Director of Programs at the Fund for Global Human Rights, where she oversaw grantmaking programs that strengthened frontline human rights movements in more than fifteen countries.

In other past lives, Amy was a high school teacher, a union researcher, a human rights observer, and worked on the US-Mexico border. When she’s not traveling to an Amplify Fund site, she is based in Washington, DC. Outside of work, Amy spends as much time as she can planning vacations for large groups of friends to escape to beautiful places and temporarily live out Utopian dreams.

Lorraine organizes grantmakers, donor networks, and funder affinity groups to move money to grassroots organizing, led by and for people of color, at the intersections of racial justice, gender justice, criminalization, and community safety and justice. She partners with NFG’s members to fund community power building and transformative organizing. Lorraine joined NFG in December of 2012.

Lorraine has worked in social justice philanthropy for 15 years, in the areas of housing and the foreclosure crisis, LGBTQ rights, gender justice, racial justice, immigrant rights, criminalization, and anti-violence organizing strategies. Lorraine previously worked in US Programs at the Open Society Foundations, and began in philanthropy at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, working across their international and US-based grant programs.

Lorraine has partnered with grassroots social justice community-based organizations across the US, on fundraising strategies, organizational development, and coalition-building. She served on the board of the Audre Lorde Project, Queers for Economic Justice, the Justice Committee, and Resource Generation. She is currently a board member of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT),and Trans Queer Pueblo; she serves on the grants panel for the Mobilize Power Fund of Third Wave Fund. Lorraine holds a B.A. in Women's Studies from Pomona College.

Nile works with place-based and national funders to strengthen our racial equity analysis and to move resources to further invest in community-led power building strategies. Inspired by social movement's and his personal organizing experiences, he believes that NFG's strategic and intersectional approaches to grantmaking are critical in shifting philanthropic resources towards social justice.

Nile joined NFG in April 2016 as the Senior Program Manager of the Democratizing Development Program. He brings fifteen years of experience in economic development, public health, community organizing, philanthropic relationship building, climate change, and environmental justice.

Before joining NFG, Nile worked as the Northern California Program Director at Communities for a Better Environment and has provided consulting services to philanthropy, nonprofits, and government entities on community equity-based climate planning and development.

Nile has served on many boards and steering committees including the Bay Area Rapid Transit Title VI Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, State Climate Adaptation Committee, Climate Justice Alliance and the Ford Theater Foundation. He holds a BA in African American Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan and an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.