2014 Scrivner Award Nominees
Eileen Howard Boone – President, CVS Caremark Charitable Trust
Eileen Howard Boone is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility and Philanthropy at CVS Caremark. In this unique role, she leads a team responsible for implementing a wide range of communications, philanthropic and CSR programs that align with the company’s purpose of helping people on their path to better health. Eileen is also the President of the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, the private foundation of CVS Caremark. In this role, she oversees the foundation’s charitable giving and is responsible for creating and managing strategic partnerships with non-profit organizations that share in the Trust’s commitment to provide greater access to health care in communities nationwide. Eileen has been honored with numerous awards for her leadership and commitment to community service and is a recipient of the prestigious Committee for Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) Charles H. Moore Award for Leadership in Corporate Community Engagement, the Lewis Hine Distinguished Service Award for Service to Children and Youth and of the Gold Stevie Awards for Female Executive of the Year and Maverick of the Year. Eileen is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and received her MBA from Fordham University in marketing and finance. She is a mother of six and resides in Barrington, Rhode Island.
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Joan Mellor – Senior Portfolio Lead, Medtronic Philanthropy
Joan Mellor is a Senior Portfolio Lead at Medtronic Philanthropy, responsible for developing and executing core strategies and tactics under an overall vision of expanding access to chronic disease healthcare for underserved communities. Working with a portfolio of local and global healthcare partners, Joan has a lead role in developing community-based demonstration projects in the United States and Brazil. Joan is also currently developing and executing strategies and programs to improve acute cardiovascular systems of care in the US (HeartRescue Project) and emerging markets, with a current focus on Shanghai and Beijing, China. Joan joined Medtronic Philanthropy in 1998. During this time she led the HeartRescue program to evolve into a national model for Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) response among the public, emergency medical and hospital personnel, and patient organizations. She has established expertise and leadership in the area of cardiac resuscitation and acute cardiovascular systems of care. Joan holds her Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and French Language from The University of St. Thomas. Joan is a native of Minnesota, and currently lives in St. Paul with her husband and three sons. Joan presently serves on the boards of the Citizen CPR Foundation, and the CDC sponsored Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES).
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Sarah Cotton Nelson – Chief Philanthropy Officer, Communities Foundation of Texas
Sarah Cotton Nelson serves as CFT’s Chief Philanthropy Officer. Prior to joining CFT, Ms. Nelson spent 12 years as a survey research methodologist with the RAND Corporation. Her other professional roles throughout her career inform her current work: managing a youth intervention program in inner city Los Angeles; directing grants and research for a regional women’s foundation; and uncovering policy changes needed within El Salvador’s legalization process for nonprofit organizations following the end of that country’s civil war. Ms. Nelson is deeply committed to creating a bridge between best practices being identified in the research world, and the nonprofit practitioners who often face a scarcity of time to source what is being shown most effective in their field of practice, as they wrestle with the intense day-to-day needs of the clients they serve. Ms. Nelson is a 2003 American Marshall Memorial Fellow and a 1997 graduate fellow at Pontifícia Universidad Católica in Chile. She earned her bachelor’s degree in international development and Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Marla Tofle – Vice President of Philanthropic Services, Napa Valley Community Foundation
Marla leads NVCF’s team that has a hybrid role of working with nonprofits on discretionary grants, and connecting Donor Advised Funds with charities they otherwise wouldn’t know about. She built NVCF’s discretionary grants portfolio, which in 2013 made over $1 million in distributions. Marla leads NVCF’s One Napa Valley Initiative that incubated integration and legal services for immigrants in our semi-rural/rural region who want to naturalize. She started new grantmaking initiatives, including a safety net program in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis that made nearly $800,000 in distributions, and foreclosure/intervention services that have helped 1,500 households.Before joining NVCF in 2005, Marla ran development research/knowledge management for The Rotary Foundation. Marla also worked as a research analyst for Computer Sciences Corp. and Egon Zehnder International. She started her career as a business journalist for the St. Louis Business Journal and IEG Sponsorship Report. Marla is a native of St. Louis and has a bachelor’s from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a master’s from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Marla also volunteers at Citizenship Legal Services, and at a Spanish-English language exchange she started with low-income immigrant women in 2009. She lives with her husband in Napa.
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Shelley Trott – Director of Arts Strategy and Ventures, Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Shelley Trott has an extensive career in the arts, having worked for over 20 years as a funder, dancer and choreographer, and filmmaker. She was nominated for two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards in performance and design, and her choreography has been presented in numerous festivals. She co-founded Rapt Productions, the premier documentarian for San Francisco Bay Area’s performing arts scene, and served as project manager for Stage Left, a regional Emmy ® nominated documentary film. For the past five years, Shelley has played a key role in the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s grantmaking programs in the Arts. She administers the Visibility Awards, which supports cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary art performances. She also created the Impact Grants to foster a dynamic learning environment for arts organizations and build their capacity during critical transitions. Shelley was instrumental in establishing the Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), a nonprofit that assists San Francisco arts organizations to secure affordable and permanent space. She regularly speaks about innovative foundation responses that address income inequality, and support advocacy and place-based approaches to improving neighborhoods and communities. Shelley has a BA in dance from Wesleyan University and an MFA in performance and choreography from California Institute of the Arts.
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