Board of Directors
Bill Clapp – Founder and President of the Board, Global Washington
Seattle International Foundation
Bill is President of the Board and Co-Founder of the Seattle International Foundation — A businessman with more than 30 years of experience running a variety of companies in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii. Bill Clapp co- founded Global Partnerships with his wife Paula Clapp in 1994. Bill retired from Matthew G. Norton Co., an investment holding company where he is still chairman, and became the CEO of Global Partnerships in early 2001. In 2002 he co-founded the Initiative for Global Development. In addition to serving on the boards of Weyerhaeuser and Alaska Airlines, he served on several community and nonprofit boards and has been actively involved in the micro-finance development areas since 1993 as an early investor. Bill has also served on many industry panels and advisory committees, speaking widely on development issues.
Carol Welch
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Carol Welch is a Senior Program Officer on the Policy & Advocacy team within the Global Development Program at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Carol comes to the foundation from the United Nations’ Millennium Campaign where she coordinated efforts in the United States. The campaign seeks to promote public understanding and awareness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the role of citizens and governments in meeting these internationally agreed goals. Carol worked with a wide range of constituencies to support their efforts to promote the MDGs, build diverse coalitions, develop curricula, and outreach to the public and media. Previously, Carol worked for over seven years at Friends of the Earth, where her last position was Director of the International Program, overseeing FoE’s campaigns on international financial institutions, trade and corporate accountability. Carol served on the Executive Committee of the Jubilee 2000/USA debt campaign and has authored several articles and publications on World Bank/IMF reform issues.
Scott Jackson
Global Impact
Scott Jackson, Chief Executive Officer, joined Global Impact October 2011. A non-governmental organization (NGO) veteran with more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Jackson leads Global Impact’s giving initiatives. He holds direct responsibility for workplace giving, campaign management for the Combined Federal Campaigns, partnerships and strategic alliances.
Mr. Jackson joined Global Impact after five years serving as Vice President for External Relations at PATH. While there, his strategic responsibilities included developing and strengthening relationships with partners and donors, while maximizing the visibility of PATH’s work.
Before joining PATH in 2006, Mr. Jackson was Senior Vice President at World Vision US where he directed external relations, key partnerships, community relations and strategic initiatives. He managed a fundraising portfolio of more than $60 million. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Jackson served as President and Managing Director of APCO Seattle, a worldwide public affairs and strategic communications consulting firm. In 1989, he founded TRADEC (Trade and Development Consortium), one of the first marketing and communications firms in North America to specialize in international trade promotion, technology transfer and market access.
Susan Jeffords
University of Washington Bothell
Dr. Susan Jeffords joined the University of Washington Bothell in September of 2007 as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Jeffords has led delegations abroad in community-university strategic partnerships and was appointed by the UW president as the Chair of the International Task Force in 1995, which resulted in a university-wide report on the UW’s international expertise and current activities. Jeffords has written and taught broadly in the area of American popular culture, with a particular emphasis on Hollywood film, the Vietnam War, and feminism. She is particularly committed to increasing opportunities for more diverse and underrepresented communities to participate actively in higher education, including expanding opportunities for international engagement.
Tim Hanstad
Landesa
Tim Hanstad is President and CEO of Landesa (www.landesa.org), a global organization that partners with developing country governments to help provide legal rights to land for rural families and women. Landesa (formerly the Rural Development Institute) has offices in seven cities including Seattle, Delhi, Beijing, and Bangalore as well as a Center for Women’s Land Rights. Hanstad is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum Community, La Pietra Coalition to Advance Women, a Schwab Foundation Outstanding Social Entrepreneur, and is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington School of Law where he has co-directed a graduate program in Law of Sustainable International Development. Hanstad most recent book is One Billion Rising Rising: Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty (with Roy Prosterman & Robert Mitchell, and forward by Joe Stiglitz).
Tanya Baskin
Voilà Foundation
Tanya Baskin is a seasoned corporate marketing executive with a proven track record of success in developing and implementing innovative, strategic corporate partnerships to achieve business objectives for NGO’s, non-profit and Fortune 500 corporations.
Baskin formerly served as the Vice President of Corporate Partnerships for Special Olympics Inc, where she was responsible for developing and implementing the corporate marketing strategy for the global movement of Special Olympics. In this capacity, she developed mutually beneficial relationships with a wide array of international companies. Much of her focus was geared toward branding, corporate presence and market penetration in international and emerging markets. She worked closely with Special Olympics’ Board of Directors and the organization’s seven regional Managing Directors, leading a development team that was located around the globe.
In her role as Executive Director of the Voilà Foundation, Tanya leads the Foundation’s mission to support relief and development efforts in Haiti that not only address Haiti’s pressing needs – for education, youth development, health care, and job creation – but that can also be scaled for deployment across the country. Tanya is based in Washington, DC to help coordinate with U.S. government agencies and NGOs that are engaged in the Haitian reconstruction effort. In order to ensure that all of the donations made to the Voilà Foundation go directly to Haitian reconstruction programs, Tanya is an employee of Trilogy International Partners, which owns and operates Voilà, one of the leading wireless carriers in Haiti.
Tanya earned her undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross and an MBA with focus on International Business from The George Washington University.
Will Poole
Social Technologist and Co-Chairman, NComputing Inc.
Will is an independent Social-Technologist, supporting ICT for Development projects and startups, and promoting Creative Capitalism. He is also Co-Chairman of NComputing, which in 2010 shipped its two-millionth unit, 75% of which are deployed in schools. Will was previously corporate VP of the Unlimited Potential Group at Microsoft, co-leading efforts to bring social and economic opportunity to the “next billion”. Will also ran Microsoft’s Windows Client business, delivering 30 percent of corporate revenues. Before Windows, Will headed up New Media Platforms and other internet and digital media groups. Will joined Microsoft in 1996 with the acquisition of eShop, an internet e-commerce pioneer which he co-founded in 1991. Before that, he spent five years in marketing and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems. Will received a degree in Computer Science from Brown University in 1983. http://www.creativecap.org
Marty Kooistra
Habitat for Humanity of Seattle/South King County
Marty Kooistra has been CEO of Habitat for Humanity’s Seattle/South King County affiliate since 2008. Under his leadership, the affiliate has aligned its strategies and outcomes around neighborhood revitalization. To this end, the affiliate’s programs directly target sustainability (at the family, neighborhood and environmental levels), community and global engagement, and the essential role of affordable homeownership in a robust local housing continuum.
Prior to joining the Seattle/South King County Habitat affiliate, Marty held several leadership positions with Habitat for Humanity’s international headquarters (HFHI). As regional director, he established standards for accelerated asset recovery and oversaw the Native Peoples Initiative. As vice president of post-Katrina collaborations & strategic partnerships, he convened two powerful Gulf recovery coalitions involving Enterprise Community Partners, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, HFHI, LISC, NeighborWorks, RALLY, Tulane University, and World Vision. Marty also served as HFHI’s director of construction & environmental resources and senior director of global program design & implementation and was appointed to HFHI’s enterprise strategic planning leadership team.
Marty currently serves as president of the board of directors of the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County, secretary of the board of directors of Habitat for Humanity Washington State, and is a member of the board of directors of Global Washington. He serves on the Seattle housing levy oversight committee; the state legislative committee of the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance; the community service committee of Seattle Rotary; the new market tax credit advisory committee of Global Green; and the affiliate enhancement committee of Habitat’s U.S. Council. Past service positions include: Federal Home Loan Bank advisory council; Lifecycle Building Challenge judge; Iowa Human Services coordinating board; Siouxland diaconal conference; JFA NW Iowa board of directors; and Sioux Empire homeless coalition.
Cree Zischke
Regional Executive Global Philanthropy and Corporate Responsibility, Northwest and Intermountain Regions
Cree Zischke heads Global Philanthropy and Community Relations for the Northwest and Intermountain Regions for JPMorgan Chase. In this role Cree leads a team of Community Relations Officers whose goal is to build vibrant and sustainable communities that support, engage, and enrich the lives of children, youth and families. Through a “Community Renaissance” aPpproach to strategic philanthropy her team invests with non-profit organizations in three focus areas: Community Development, Education and Arts and Culture. Cree and her team are responsible for community relations and civic engagement, while managing a social investment portfolio of program grants and sponsorship addressing needs at a neighborhood level.
Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Cree held senior leadership positions with U.S. Bancorp, Patterson Companies, UnitedHealth Group and the State of Arizona Department of Corrections. In addition, she worked as a senior policy advisor with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigration reform with a particular focus on healthcare, and civil detention of families, children and vulnerable populations. She has led workshops and spoken nationally on Creating Effective Partnerships, Corporate Giving, Leadership Development, and Mergers and Acquisition: Due Diligence through Integration.
Cree’s experience in leadership roles working with non-profit groups, government agencies and private businesses have proved invaluable in deepening her understanding of the complexities and subtleties of these business areas and their importance to creating healthy sustainable communities.
She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Artspace Projects and Achieve Minneapolis. In addition, Cree volunteers with organizations providing support to improve employability and reduce poverty. Ms. Zischke is a graduate of the University of Arizona.
