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Kathy Reich is a leader, thinker, and writer on issues related to philanthropy and systems change. She recently completed eight years as the founding director of the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative, a 12-year, $2 billion effort to strengthen key institutions around the world that fight inequality. To date, the BUILD program has supported more than 500 organizations in 40 countries.
Before joining Ford, Kathy worked for 15 years at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, including as organizational effectiveness and philanthropy director. Prior to that, she served as a policy director of a non-profit, a legislative assistant for a United States Senator, and an aide to state and local elected officials in California. Kathy advises philanthropic foundations around the world on how to advance systems change through grantmaking practices that emphasize flexibility, long-term commitments, institutional strengthening, and equitable relationships with grantee partners.
