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Strengthening Vulnerable Families Teleconference: Helping the Working Poor Climb Out of Poverty

Strengthening Vulnerable Families Teleconference: Helping the Working Poor Climb Out of Poverty
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Speakers:

Amanda Feinstein

Amanda Feinstein is the Senior Program Officer for Economic Security at the Walter and Elise Haas Fund in San Francisco. In this capacity she developed and manages a grantmaking program that promotes economic advancement for low-income families and communities through workforce development, asset building and community development strategies. Previously, Amanda oversaw welfare to work training contracts and developed new workforce training initiatives as project manager at the San Francisco Department of Human Services. She also was the founding director of the San Francisco Council on Homelessness a non-profit policy and advocacy organization; and worked as an aide to a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Amanda has two decades of experience working in the non-profit, government and philanthropic sectors on a variety of issues related to ameliorating poverty. She has a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelors in Sociology from Antioch College.

Mary M. Hunt-Lieving
Mary Hunt-Lieving is a Senior Program Officer for the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation based in Pittsburgh serving all of West Virginia and four counties in southwestern Pennsylvania.  In her program focus areas of community and economic development Mary works with non-profits, local, state and federal governments as well as educational institutions.  Prior to joining the Benedum Foundation, she held community development and administrative management positions at the local and state government levels and a private corporation in West Virginia.  She holds a BS in Sociology and MS in Public Administration and has begun work on a PhD in Public Policy from West Virginia University.

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The Family Funders Network was a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, coordinated by the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers.

Contact: Elisabeth Hyleck, project coordinator, ehyleck@abagmd.org