Kathy Partridge, Executive Director of Interfaith
Funders was Program Officer with the Needmor Fund for
ten years. Her grantmaking focused on community
organizing nationwide, the Southern states of Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, and welfare reform, with
discretionary grants supporting independent media. Kathy
served on the Interfaith Funders grantmaking committee
from 1999-2003, and participated in the FBCO State of the
Field research project. She was a co-author of the
National Network of Grantmakers Common Grant
Application, and was awarded the honorary status of
“Elder” at NNG’s 25th Anniversary in 2005. Kathy has
been an organizer in Mississippi, Europe, and Colorado on
social justice, women's, and peace issues. She’s led
environmental, media and human service non-profit
organizations in management, development,
communications, and volunteer coordination, from the local
to the international level. She was a member of the
Grassroots Global Justice delegation to the World Social
Forum in Mumbai, India. For more than twenty years, she’
s been a radio host and producer at Denver-Boulder’s
community station KGNU, and represented the station at
an AMARC global community radio conference in
Nicaragua in 1989. She is a graduate of the University of
Colorado (Peace and Conflict Studies) and is currently
completing an MA at Regis University in Social Justice
Philanthropy and Organizing, with research on how
progressive philanthropists advance social movements
through strategic grantmaking.
Funders was Program Officer with the Needmor Fund for
ten years. Her grantmaking focused on community
organizing nationwide, the Southern states of Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, and welfare reform, with
discretionary grants supporting independent media. Kathy
served on the Interfaith Funders grantmaking committee
from 1999-2003, and participated in the FBCO State of the
Field research project. She was a co-author of the
National Network of Grantmakers Common Grant
Application, and was awarded the honorary status of
“Elder” at NNG’s 25th Anniversary in 2005. Kathy has
been an organizer in Mississippi, Europe, and Colorado on
social justice, women's, and peace issues. She’s led
environmental, media and human service non-profit
organizations in management, development,
communications, and volunteer coordination, from the local
to the international level. She was a member of the
Grassroots Global Justice delegation to the World Social
Forum in Mumbai, India. For more than twenty years, she’
s been a radio host and producer at Denver-Boulder’s
community station KGNU, and represented the station at
an AMARC global community radio conference in
Nicaragua in 1989. She is a graduate of the University of
Colorado (Peace and Conflict Studies) and is currently
completing an MA at Regis University in Social Justice
Philanthropy and Organizing, with research on how
progressive philanthropists advance social movements
through strategic grantmaking.
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