Consulting
Tom David advises foundations and other public benefit organizations on program strategy and design, organizational learning and evaluation. Until August, 2004, he was Director of Organizational Learning and Evaluation at the Marguerite Casey Foundation in Seattle. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of The California Wellness Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of the S.H. Cowell Foundation and Senior Program Officer at the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco. Before beginning his work in organized philanthropy, he was Coordinator of Clinical Research for the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and Director of the UCLA Bush Program in Child and Family Policy. He is a member of the board of Grantmakers in Health and the Advisory Board of the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program. He has also served on the boards of Women and Philanthropy and Northern California Grantmakers, including a term as Chair. He was the recipient of the 2002 Terrence Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy from Grantmakers in Health. He received his Master's in Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago.
Since 2004, I have had the privilege to work with the following organizations:
- Blueprint Research & Design (San Francisco)
- Blue Shield of California Foundation (San Francisco)
- BTW-informing change (Berkeley)
- The California Endowment (Los Angeles)
- California HealthCare Foundation (Oakland)
- The Colorado Health Foundation (Denver)
- The California Wellness Foundation (Woodland Hills)
- The Colorado Health Institute (Denver)
- The Colorado Trust (Denver)
- The Community Clinics Initiative (San Francisco)
- Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz)
- Compton Foundation (San Francisco)
- Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation (Des Moines)
- The Family Violence Prevention Fund (San Francisco)
- FSG-Social Impact Advisors (Boston)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
- Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund (San Francisco)
- Humanity United (Redwood City)
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center (San Francisco)
- James Irvine Foundation (San Francisco)
- Kansas Health Foundation (Wichita)
- Metta Fund (Corte Madera)
- Mid-Iowa Health Foundation (Des Moines)
- New Field Foundation (San Francisco)
- Northwest Health Foundation (Portland, OR)
- Noyce Foundation (Palo Alto)
- Playworks (formerly Sports4Kids) (Oakland)
- Public Health Institute (Oakland)
- The Scan Foundation (Long Beach)
- Sierra Health Foundation (Sacramento)
- Tides Foundation (San Francisco)
- United Methodist Health Ministry Fund (Hutchinson, KS)
- Women Donors Network (San Francisco)
- Women's Funding Network (San Francisco)