Marvin I. Schotland, Chair
President and CEO
Jewish Community Foundation

Mr. Schotland has been with the Jewish Community Foundation for 12 years. Prior to joining the foundation, Mr. Schotland served as the executive director of the Jewish Community Foundation in New Jersey and also in Southern Arizona. He currently serves on the board of directors of more than 25 family foundations.

Angel Zapata, Vice Chair
Vice President, Community Investments and Marketing
Northern Trust Bank

As Vice President at Northern Trust Bank, Mr. Zapata manages the statewide community reinvestment program. Previously, he was the principal of an organizational management and media strategy consulting group in Santa Monica, where his marketing, business and fund development skills were tapped by various Latino organizations and KCET. Mr. Zapata also served as a program officer for the Joyce Foundation in Chicago.

Carl Ballton, Treasurer
President
Union Bank of California Foundation

Prior to joining Union Bank in 1979, Mr. Ballton worked at the Continental Illinois National Bank of Chicago. He serves on the Board of Los Angeles Urban League, Goodwill Industries of Southern California, and the Los Angeles Community Design Center. He also serves on a number of Corporate Advisory Boards.

Fred Ali, Secretary
President and Chief Executive Officer
Weingart Foundation

Mr. Ali is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Weingart Foundation, a position he has held since 1999. He previously served as the Executive Director of Covenant House in Los Angeles, where he developed a large multi-service program for homeless youth. Mr. Ali began his career as a volunteer teacher and counselor in a small Alaskan Eskimo village, served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Alaska, Anchorage and was the founding Executive Director of Covenant House in Alaska.

Board Members

William H. Ahmanson
President
The Ahmanson Foundation

Mr. Ahmanson oversees the Foundation’s grantmaking, which serves Los Angeles County by funding cultural projects in the arts and humanities, education at all levels, health care, programs related to homelessness and underserved populations as well as a wide range of human services. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Ahmanson was in the banking industry. He also serves on the boards of several major cultural and charitable institutions. 

Judy Belk
Vice President
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

As Vice President, Ms. Belk heads Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ West Coast offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Previously, Ms. Belk spent 10 years as Vice President of Global Public Affairs for Levi Strauss & Co., where she led the $120 million Levi Strauss Foundation. Under her leadership, the foundation and company developed a global reputation for its work in the fight against AIDS and several nationally recognized anti-racism initiatives.

Elise Buik
President
United Way of Greater Los Angeles

Ms. Buik has served the United Way of Greater Los Angeles since 1994. Under her leadership, the organization implemented a new community investment plan focused on measurable impact and also developed key social reports. Ms. Buik is the first woman to serve as the organization's president.

Dannielle Campos
Senior Vice President; Regional Program Officer Corporate Philanthropy
Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy

Having previously served as the Vice President and California Manager for Bank of America Foundation, Ms. Campos has shepherded charitable programs for the company for more than a decade. She has also been an active participant in SCG, as well as Hispanics in Philanthropy and Los Angeles Urban Funders.

James Lewis Kyle II, M.D.
Board Member
The California Endowment

Mr. Kyle is the Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in the College of Medicine at Charles Drew University and the former Dean of the School of Public Health at Loma Linda University. In addition, he helped create a multicultural independent practice association comprised primarily of African American, Hispanic and Filipino physicians serving minority communities.

Rachel Levin
Associate Director
Righteous Persons Foundation

Ms. Levin helped establish Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation, which has made grants totaling almost $75 million to strengthen and revitalize Jewish life in the United States as well as the Foundation’s recent Fund for Co-Existence. Previously, Ms. Levin worked in the California political scene. Levin is a co-founder of Reboot and  Joshua Venture: A fellowship for Jewish Social Entrepreneurs.

Alicia N. Procello Maddox
Corporate Responsibility Manager
Nike’s Western Geographic Business Unit

Mrs. Maddox oversees grantmaking that increases physical activity in youth ages 8-15. Previously, Maddox was a Program Director for The California Wellness Foundation. She has also served with Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Health Facilities Authority Commission, the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, and the American Public Health Association’s Black Caucus of Health Workers.

Janis Minton
Executive Director
The Atlas Family Foundation

Ms. Minton is Executive Director of The Atlas Family Foundation which concentrates its charitable resources to advance high-impact early childhood intervention and education programs for children prenatal-to-three and their families in Los Angeles County.

Alvertha Bratton Penny
Vice President for Programs
The California Community Foundation

Ms. Penny develops plans, strategies and guidelines in support of the foundation’s 10-year strategic plan and manages a $20 million annual discretionary grants budget, as well as the grantmaking activities of other funds totaling more than $3 million. Previously, Penny served with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Janice Pober
Senior Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Ms. Pober is Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she administers the studio’s strategic philanthropic efforts and community outreach activities. She also serves as trustee of the California State Summer School for the Arts, Vice Chair of Workplace Hollywood, and is on the boards of Camino Nuevo Charter School, Los Angeles County Public Library Foundation and serves on the Executive Committee for the Los Angeles County Blueprint for Arts Education.

Hugh J. Ralston
President & CEO
Ventura County Community Foundation

Mr. Ralston brings wide nonprofit and private sector experience as a banker for 16 years to his leadership of VCCF. Mr. Ralston serves on the board for the Planned Giving Council of Ventura County and is a member of the steering committee of the League of California Community Foundations, as well as Scripps College in Claremont, the Community Arts Music Association in Santa Barbara and the Community Commission for Ventura County.

Marcos V. Ramirez
Program Officer
The Fieldstone Foundation

Mr. Ramirez has oversight of grantmaking, leadership development programs, and philanthropic initiatives in Southern California and has been active in philanthropic networks in Orange County, having served as President of the Orange County Community Relations Council, and being a member of Orange County Funders and the OC Council on Philanthropy. Mr. Ramirez has also been a professor on leadership development, an organizational development and management consultant and community organizer.

Cristina Regalado
Vice President - Programs
The California Wellness Foundation

Ms. Regalado was Vice President for Administration and Programs at the Los Angeles Women's Foundation prior to joining The California Wellness Foundation. She serves on the board of Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy and was formerly on the board of the Women's Funding Network. Ms. Regalado also previously served as Vice-Chair for the SCG Board.

Ray F. Reisler, Ed.D.
Executive Director
S. Mark Taper Foundation

Dr. Reisler has held his position at the S. Mark Taper Foundation since its founding in 1989. He is the founder and co-leader of the Education Funders Group, which is comprised of LA-based foundations interested in public education, and serves as a member of the Los Angeles County Arts Education Advisory Group. Dr. Reisler has also participated on a number of SCG program committees including chair for the 1999 Annual Conference Committee.

Latonya Slack, J.D.
Senior Program Officer
The James Irvine Foundation

Ms. Slack previously served as the Executive Director of California Black Women's Health Project, Inc., where she established a mental health initiative and a health policy advocate training program for lay community members. She also worked for the Service Employees International Union, Local 399, and has served on a number of boards and committees committed to issues of equity and access. Ms. Slack is a 2006 American Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund, a transatlantic program promoting international relations between Europe and the United States.