Jeffrey M. Glebocki, Founder & Lead Advisor
Strategy + Action/Philanthropy Foundation executive, philanthropic advisor, civic leader. Jeff is nationally-recognized for his extensive service in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, with specific expertise in family and private foundations. An accomplished grantmaker, executive and advisor, Jeff’s experience is deeply rooted in philanthropic practice, education grantmaking (K-12 & higher education), civic affairs, community and economic development, youth issues and nonprofit management. As founder and CEO of Strategy + Action/Philanthropy, since 2006 he has helped foundations, nonprofits and institutions around the country become catalysts for change in the communities and causes they serve. He has co-written philanthropic articles and booklets for the National Center for Family Philanthropy, Indiana Grantmakers Alliance, Grantmakers for Education, and Exponent Philanthropy, and has been appointed to state boards and commissions in Ohio and Arizona. Jeff lives in Tucson, Arizona, where you’ll often find him on his bike exploring what’s around that next turn.
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Evan Mendelson, Associate
Strategy + Action/Philanthropy
Advisor in strategic philanthropy, organizational development, leadership transitions.
Evan Mendelson has over 40 years of experience working in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, including consulting and executive roles for local and national organizations, in small cities and large, and for mainstream and grassroots organizations.
Evan’s expertise is in increasing the capacity of nonprofit organizations, creating sustainable systems change through collective impact strategies, developing high impact grantmaking strategies, and facilitating successful leadership transitions.
She was the founding Executive Director of the Jewish Funders Network, a national membership organization of individual philanthropists and family foundations. Her work with family foundations continued with Diamond Family Philanthropies and the David and Lura Lovell Foundation where she set up grantmaking systems, managed grantmaking programs, and helped develop strategic directions that resulted in increased grant size and greater community impact. As consultant to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation of Springfield, Massachusetts, Evan spent two years interviewing and assessing the role of major philanthropists in small and mid-sized communities across America.
Christina Milano, Associate
Strategy + Action/Philanthropy
Education and organizational development advisor.
Christina Milano has a significant track record working with non-profit organizations throughout the nation. These include college access programs, statewide networks, as well as arts, health and education-focused groups. Her expertise is in program evaluation and management, strategic planning, replication, organizational development, fund raising and fiscal management. Tina has authored guidebooks and provided counsel on creating local programs and regional and statewide networks.
Milano was executive director of the Cleveland Scholarship Programs (College Now) for 14 years where she worked closely with the Cleveland schools and numerous community partners. She co-founded and became the first executive director of the National College Access Network. During her tenure, that organization’s membership grew from 28 to more than 250 organizations. Tina has been instrumental in helping create dozens of college access programs in cities and states as well as in under-resourced rural areas throughout the country through needs analyses and providing blueprints for creating each organization.
Ronald A. Stewart, Ph.D., Associate
Strategy + Action/Philanthropy
Leader in organizational development.
Dr. Stewart has served grant making organizations by redesigning grantee application materials, developing metrics and tools to measure grantee success, conducting feasibility studies, assessing organizational sustainability of grantees, and conducting issue-based focus groups to delineate and substantiate need.
His development activities for nonprofit and public organizations include training, executive coaching, executive search, board & staff development, planning, and fundraising.
A rural Ohio native, he understands the need to engage young people, especially those from Appalachia, in contemporary global issues and to encourage their participation in the delivery of community based solutions inspired by this increased awareness. In 2010, he established the Ronald A. Stewart Fund for International Study and Service at Case Western Reserve University’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences to award scholarships to qualified students to study and serve around the globe.
A resident of southern California’s Coachella Valley, Dr. Stewart holds a Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies in Organizational Leadership and Management from The Union Institute and University, a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Organizations from Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and Communications from Kent State University.
