Ann Fowler Wallace
Massachusetts
Ann is the Director of Programs for The Funders Network staffs the One Region Funders’ Group, heads up the Network’s responsive service work in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, and staffs the Green Building Green Neighborhoods Working Group. She also provides support to the Network’s Restoring Prosperity in Older Industrial Cities working group, and manages the Network’s team of field consultants. Previously, Ann facilitated the planning and design of smart growth collaboratives in Vermont and Massachusetts. She has worked as a program consultant to the John Merck Fund, principally on JMF’s environmental health grants program, and consulted with other foundations and funder networks focusing on environmental, sustainable agriculture, and smart growth issues. She is a former partner at GMA Foundations, a philanthropic consulting firm serving charitable foundations and individual donors, where for fifteen years she headed up GMA’s environmental grantmaking and consulting practice. Among her past environmental clients, Ann worked for the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, the Conservation, Food & Health Foundation, the Dolphin Trust, and The Elizabeth Ordway Dunn Foundation. Ann has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.A. with concentration in environmental policy from Tufts University.
