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Rusty M. Stahl, Executive Director

Rebecca Schumer, Director of Membership

Past EPIP Staff and Consultants









Rusty M. Stahl
Executive Director

Rusty M. Stahl is founding executive director of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP). EPIP is a national network of young and new philanthropic professionals that seeks to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers, in order to advance effective social justice philanthropy. Rusty was part of a group of foundation professionals and trustees who started the group together in 2001 after meeting up at a Council on Foundations conference. Rusty took on the role of coordinating the group while working his foundation job.

Before beginning work for EPIP in 2002, Mr. Stahl worked as a Program Associate at the Ford Foundation, in the Governance and Civil Society Unit. At Ford, he was honored to support grantmaking that aims to expand social justice philanthropy, increase the impact of community organizing, and nurture the health of the nonprofit sector.

Rusty holds an M.A. in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University, where he studied at the Center on Philanthropy. He came to the Center as a participant in the Jane Addams Fellowship. During his graduate studies, Rusty was one of the founders of the Central Indiana Jobs with Justice coalition. As an undergraduate at George Washington University, he worked as an AmeriCorps member serving local senior citizens, and volunteered in a variety of political, social and economic justice efforts.

Stahl is a long-standing board member of Idealist.org, the global nonprofit web portal. He represents EPIP on the Next Generation Advisory Committee of the Council on Foundations, the Board of the Nonprofit Workforce Coalition and in the leadership of the Social Justice Philanthropy Collaborative. Rusty sits on advisory committees for the Third Millennium Philanthropy and Leadership Initiative at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, and The Grantmaking School at the Johnson Center at Grand Valley State University.


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Rebecca Schumer
Director of Membership

Rebecca Schumer currently serves as the Director of Membership at Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP). Schumer manages 500+ individual and 30+ institutional memberships, and a broader colleague network of 3,000. Currently, she is working with the Executive Director and National Board to both strengthen the value of membership, and develop diverse financial resources to support a new strategic plan. Before becoming Director, Schumer served as Program Assistant and Membership and Program Manager. She holds a BS from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communications from NYU, and completed a minor in Social and Public Policy from NYU Wagner. Schumer graduated Magna Cum Laude. In the future, she hopes to navigate the hybrid space of public-private ventures to strengthen the nonprofit sector and grow civil society for real social change.

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Acknowledgement of Past Staff
EPIP wishes to recognize the personnel, consultants, fellows, and interns who have contributed to the vitality of the organization since it was launched in September 2002. These include:

Christopher Anderson
Administrative Assistant

Sarah Ashcroft
Graduate Fellow

K. Emerson Beyer
Program Consultant

Omisade Burney-Scott
Program Consultant

Elizabeth Cuccaro
NYC Chapter Organizer

Milano Harden
Program Consultant

Jen Kramer-Wine
Program Consultant

Kristina Lucien
Intern

Bodi Luse
Graduate Fellow

Erika Scott
Post-Bachaloriate Fellow

Sophia Silao
Associate Director

Sam Stegeman
Program Consultant


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