Proteus Fund

PROTEUS FUND "is a public foundation based in Amherst, Massachusetts and Washington DC. Since its founding in 1994, Proteus Fund has funded programs that expand access to our democracy with the goal of building and strengthening the social justice movement. Our initiatives, Piper Fund, State Strategies Fund, Media Action Fund, Security Policy Working Group, and our affiliated 501(c)(4) grantmaking organization Proteus Action League, demonstrate innovative and strategic philanthropy at its best.

"Proteus Fund also provides management and consulting services to individual donors, and to private and family foundations. Because we are a group of related programs with a shared staff, we are able to direct a variety of grants for multiple and specific purposes and support individual organizations whose combined work is complementary and aggregates to much more than the sum of their individual efforts." 

Staff
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 * Meg Gage - President and Executive Director
 * Marc Caplan - Blueprint Project Program Officer
 * Amy Clough - Grants Manager
 * Amber French - Development Associate
 * Carolyn Gabel-Brett - Civil Marriage Collaborative Program Officer
 * Irma Gonzalez - Director of Development and Communications
 * Muthoni Magua - Director of Finance & Administration
 * Dini Merz - Peace and Security Programs Program Director
 * Chuck Shuford - Blueprint Project Program Officer
 * Brenda Thomas - Office Manager

Directors
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 * Tom Asher, Secretary - Asher & Associates
 * Meg Gage - Proteus Fund President and Executive Director
 * Sara Gould - Ms. Foundation for Women
 * Charles Knight - Commonwealth Institute
 * Mike Lux - Progressive Strategies, LLC
 * Byron Rushing, Chair - Massachusetts House of Representatives
 * Frank Sanchez, Vice Chair - The Needmor Fund
 * Mark Schmitt - New America Foundation
 * Margery Tabankin, Emerita - Tabankin Associates
 * Robert Zevin, Treasurer - Zevin Associates

Contact

 * Web: http://www.proteusfund.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * The CarEth Foundation is a program of the fund.
 * Kimberly Longey - former deputy director
 * Jason Franklin
 * Dimple Abichandani - program officer