Jen Bokoff
Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Candid
Jen Bokoff is the director of stakeholder engagement at Candid. She develops partnerships and projects that build knowledge and strategy for the social sector. She likes asking “so what?” to push Foundation Center’s data-driven work to be as valuable and actionable as it can be to changemakers. She also runs GrantCraft, a free service that taps the practical wisdom of funders to improve the collective knowledge of the philanthropy field.
In her role, Jen regularly speaks at conferences and facilitates workshops with funders, and connects people to resources, ideas, and one another. A graduate of Tufts University, Jen studied community health and sociology and spent two years involved in the Learning by Giving philanthropy program. She serves on the Alumni Council’s executive committee and also serves on an advisory committee for The Moth’s education programs.
In her spare time, she is an amateur comedic improviser, avid Brooklyn nerd, and second base woman on Foundation Center’s winning-in-spirit softball team. Jen is a firm believer that social innovation and change happen only when passionate people across different industries collaborate; being a strong connector enables this growth in local communities and throughout the world.
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Youth Voice for Stronger Philanthropy
Sachi Takahashi-Rial
Jen Bokoff
J. Michael Durnil
Olivia Henry
Garrett Moeggenborg
Anthony Richardson
As education funders seek strategies to continually increase their impact, there’s no better source for insights on what’s working and not working for our country’s young people than the voices of youth themselves. The panel will address how funders can bring youth voice and participation into grantmaking and change-making. In this session, you’ll hear from education funders and practitioners about how engaging and empowering youth voice can lead to stronger philanthropy.