Meet Our Team

Lori A. Vacek

Areas of Expertise

Management, planning, design and assessment of domestic and international corporate grantmaking and community involvement programs.

Recent Assignments

• Supporting the creation of a corporate foundation for a private company and designing a community involvement strategy.
• Managing foundation and corporate international giving budgets and staff/consultant relationships.
• Analyzing grant proposals and preparing grant recommendations for senior managers and board members.
• Identifying and preparing grantmaking tools and resources for domestic and international program staff.
• Researching and evaluating and reporting on global giving initiatives.
• Evaluating corporate citizenship professional needs for national and regional membership organizations.
• Identifying the need for and designing a community assessment model for corporate managers to help them respond to issues as they expand in local communities.
• Benchmarking best-in-class corporate citizenship models.

Background

• More than 15 years total experience working with corporate grantmakers on domestic and international programs.
• Five years as consultant in corporate citizenship with The Consulting Network.
• Three years as director of corporate services at the Council on Foundations, Washington, D.C.
• Four years as a program officer for Wells Fargo Bank Foundation.
• Author of publications on international grantmaking, strategic planning and measuring corporate giving.
• Graduate of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, earning a master’s degree in public policy analysis at Claremont Graduate School and a MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkley. Coro Foundation Fellowship in Public Affairs.