Alyson Wise Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

Consult directly with ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to design and implement philanthropic giving strategies, next gen education programming, and multigenerational family governance systems.• Partner with Client Advisory Teams across the firm’s Western regional offices to help client families set up charitable vehicles, establish governance frameworks, create mission statements, devise impact strategies, and identify, vet, and monitor charitable investment opportunities.• Partner with Client Advisory Teams nationally to design and execute family meetings for clients committed to cementing legacy, empowering next generation loved ones, and fostering good governance of family businesses and/or other shared assets.• Cultivate partnerships with industry leaders and highlight Bessemer’s knowledge, expertise, and lessons learned in public forums through speaking engagements and authorship.• Partner with business development colleagues to highlight Philanthropic Advisory and Family Wealth Stewardship services for prospective clients and centers of influence.

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Co-design and facilitate programming to connect descendants of John E. Andrus to engage with the Surdna Foundation, a $1.2B family foundation established over one hundred years ago and stewarded by seven generations of descendants.• Co-design and facilitate Board Executives in Training (BETS), a yearlong program for young members of the Andrus family (ages 18-24) to explore philanthropic giving animated by the values of social justice. • Co-design and facilitate Board Executives in Training (BETS) 2.0, a six-month program for multi-generational family members to explore nonprofit board service guided by social justice values.• Co-design and facilitate the Andrus Youth Services Program, for high-school aged members of the Andrus family to explore social and economic challenges in their communities.• Author curriculum for open-source distribution to support families, advisors and educators interested in empowering young people to advance social justice philanthropy.

New York, Ny, Us

Support executive leadership and Board of Directors to define the foundation’s “inclusive economies” impact goal and support program staff to bring grant portfolios into alignment with defined objectives.• Curate a portfolio of grantees to develop a framework for “inclusive economies” based on academic research and practitioner experience.• Collaborate with colleagues to solicit input on the “inclusive economies” impact goal and provide guidance on how program staff can revisit initiative strategies and marketing to bring their initiatives into greater alignment with the goal.• Lead three program officers and support staff to execute the U.S. Youth Employment Initiative.• Work with foundation executives to launch campaigns and special initiatives such as the 100x25 Campaign to bring more women leaders into executive leadership of FORTUNE 500 companies, or the Opportunity Zones initiative, focused on supporting local and state governments to pursue new development opportunities with an “equity mindset”.

Lead the foundation’s Workplace Initiative, a philanthropic intervention focused on employer-led and community-led strategies to provide people with disabilities access to quality jobs.• Collaborate with disability experts to refine the Workplace Initiative strategy, oversee operations, and ensure alignment with the expectations of the foundation’s patrons.• Manage a team of three Program Officers responsible for executing grantmaking portfolios aligned with the initiative’s strategy.

New York, Ny, Us

Develop a private sector strategy to address the youth unemployment crisis in the United States and test the viability of the strategy with a portfolio of actively managed grant partnerships.• Conduct research and commission academic research to identify opportunities for scalable interventions with the potential to meaningfully address the opportunity youth crisis in the United States.• Design and execute a $7M portfolio of grants to test a “prototype” strategy for a youth employment initiative.

Audit the private operating foundation to inform a new strategic plan at a critical time when policy change and other external factors threatened the organization’s long-term sustainability.• Complete an impact assessment and program review of Foundation Rwanda’s efforts to support children born from rape during the Rwandan genocide.• Design a program delivery and capacity building strategy to help the Foundation meet its strategic objectives.

New York, Ny, Us

• Co-developed curriculum for the “Vital Voices: Women Leading Change Around the World,” a course focusing on international women’s issues;• Updated curriculum for “Policy Formation and Analysis,” Senior Fellow Robert Shrum’s graduate course exploring the intersections of politics and policy in the United States;• Identified and engaged policy experts, business executives and nonprofit leaders to guest-lecture for both courses.• Contributed research to Robert Shrum's weekly column at The Daily Beast

Washington, Dc, Us

Contribute to the growth of a new nonprofit public charity originally established by the U.S. State Department, to develop women leaders in business, government, and civil society across the Global South.• Design and implement signature programs and events, including a Pan-African Summit, the La Pietra Coalition, and a global women’s mentoring program with the U.S. Department of State and FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women.• Support CEO, Alyse Nelson, to co-author and edit the leadership development book: “Vital Voices: Women Leading Change Around the World” published in 2012 by Jossey-Bass Publishing.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Provide administrative support for the 2008 girls’ economic empowerment request for proposals and plan a retreat for foundation leadership to negotiate a $5M philanthropic partnership with Peter and Jennifer Buffet.

Supported World Pulse Magazine and PulseWire.org’s Outreach Director to research and solicit partnerships with organizations specializing in water sustainability and gender.

Processed donations, completed mailings and staffed events for a nonprofit that seeks to diagnose and treat women living with breast cancer in low income communities across New York City.

Mpa, Non Profit Management And Public Policy

Ba, Liberal Arts With A Focus In Africana Studies & French Language