Kara Weiss

Biography

Kara Weiss is the Executive Director of CRI Foundation, a strategic philanthropic foundation focused on cost-effective, high impact interventions geared to those living in poverty in low- and middle-income countries in Africa.

Kara has led CRI to develop a strategic philanthropic strategy which has positioned the foundation as a key catalyst in the community health space and as a pivotal voice in strategic philanthropy. She led CRI to co-found the Risk Pool Fund, an innovative mechanism to address some of the most enduring risks of philanthropy, and is always looking for the next best idea. She is the CRI lead on system-change initiatives, as well as government partnerships, including CRI’s ongoing partnership with Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) at USAID.

Kara is on the board of Spark MicroGrants, Seed Global Health, the Center for Development Economics at Williams College, CRI Foundation, as well as the allocation committee of the WAM Foundation.