People

 


 

Rebecca W. Graves


Executive Director, CF Insights
becca.graves@fsg-impact.org

Becca oversees CF Insights, the division of FSG that provides a knowledge platform and benchmarking resources for the community foundation field. Formerly a Managing Director at FSG, Becca also leads FSG’s Community-Based Philanthropy focus area, where she helps community leaders and community philanthropists on issues of strategy, evaluation, and program development related to specific communities. She has more than 10 years of consulting experience and since 2001 has led a wide range of strategy development and evaluation projects for FSG, with a particular focus on geographically-targeted or place-based private and community foundations. In addition, she has worked extensively with community foundations and was a primary architect of FSG’s community foundation sustainability research and tools for the field.

Prior to joining FSG, Becca was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting where she worked with corporate, nonprofit, and government clients. She also served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer at Wellspring House, Inc., a community-based organization operating programs to address family homelessness.

Becca holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in Economics and Applied Mathematics. 

 

 

 

Representative Clients

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Council on Foundations

MELMAC Education Foundation

MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation


Ideas

From Insight to Action
Leading ideas and approaches for foundation evaluation

Growing Smarter
Achieving sustainability in emerging community foundations

The Evaluation of Capacity-Building Grants
Key learnings for a successful program

Measuring Success in Donor Development
Per capita giving levels highlight successful strategies


SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Council on Foundations Annual Conference
Managing Economic Stress and an Addiction to Asset Based Fees