Nile K. Malloy 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, managing campaigns and programs on climate adaptation, clean energy, environmental justice, and local economic development projects. Nile has also 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 Oakland Climate Action Coalition, Climate Justice Alliance, Bay Area Resilience Initiative, Bay Area Rapid Transit Title VI Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, Bay Area Air Quality Management District Cumulative Impacts Working Group, and Bay Localize. 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.

Lorraine Ramirez has worked in social justice philanthropy for nearly 15 years, in the areas of LGBTQ rights, gender justice, racial justice, housing and the foreclosure crisis, and anti-violence organizing strategies. Prior to NFG, Lorraine worked in US Programs at the Open Society Foundations. She began her work in philanthropy with five years on the grantmaking team at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, across their international and US-based grant programs. She has consulted and partnered with a number of social justice community-based organizations, primarily on fundraising strategies and organizational development.

She has previously served on the board of the Audre Lorde Project and the Justice Committee. She is currently a board member of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT), Trans Queer Pueblo, and Resource Generation; she also serves on the grants panel for the Mobilize Power Fund of Third Wave Fund. Lorraine holds a BA in Women's Studies from Pomona College.

Lindsay works with NFG’s membership to ensure that foundations and their staff are fully benefiting from being a part of the NFG network. She holds a birds-eye view of the national and local funders within the NFG network and is always happy to help connect folks with each other, help NFG members share their stories or pose their questions to our nationwide audience, and plug funders into the growing slate of NFG programs and offerings to deepen their work and relationships.

Lindsay joined NFG in 2017, continuing her passion for and deep experience with providing resources, capacity building, and technical assistance to support social justice advocacy. Lindsay was herself an NFG member while serving as Program Officer with the Proteus Fund’s Security & Rights Collaborative, and also worked as a Legal Associate at Alliance for Justice. Lindsay earned her BA from New York University and JD from Brooklyn Law School. Following extended stints in New York City and the Bay Area and elsewhere around the world, Lindsay now engages in movement building work based from her home state of Montana.

Manisha Vaze joined NFG in February 2017 as the Senior Program Manager for Funders for a Just Economy (FJE). Manisha has more than 12 years’ experience as a community organizer. Before joining FJE, Manisha was the Director of Organizing at Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) in South Los Angeles. Her work at SCOPE helped advance an agenda to eliminate structural barriers to social and economic opportunities, and build replicable job training and workforce models that have regional and national impact.

Manisha also previously served as the Senior Organizer at Families for Freedom (FFF), a New York City-based community organization by and for families facing deportation due to an interaction with the criminal system. She campaigned to win federal changes to immigration law and statewide changes to cut ties between the local criminal system and the federal immigration system. Manisha also has experience in mental health program development and policy advocacy, and served as the Follow-up Coordinator at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University.