Blueprint has a seasoned staff with deep experience in both foundation and nonprofit settings. We also have a number of strategic partners who offer additional capacity and expertise.

Lucy Bernholz, Ph.D.

Lucy Bernholz is the Founder and President of Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., a strategy consulting firm specializing in program research and design for philanthropic foundations. She has worked as a program officer and consultant to foundations since 1990. Bernholz founded Blueprint Research & Design, Inc in 1997 as a means of pursuing a lifelong interest in the shifting relationships between society’s definitions of public and private and to help grant makers make better use of applied research.

As a community foundation program officer Bernholz was responsible for developing and managing grant programs in the arts and humanities, community development, education, environment, health, historic preservation, and human services. She also supervised the implementation of special initiatives focused on neighborhood development, lesbian and gay community issues, management assistance, citizenship, and early adolescence. As a consultant, Bernholz has developed grant strategies on a wide range of social issues for foundations, individuals, and corporations.

Dr. Bernholz is a noted analyst of the philanthropic industry and has published numerous articles in the trade and general press, edited collections, and scholarly journals. Her most recent book, Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2004. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

She serves as a Special Fellow to the Synergos Institute and as Member of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy. Bernholz is on the Advisory Boards of the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equality, YouthGive, Social Venture Partners Bay Area, the National Philanthropic Trust, and The Grantmaking School. In addition, she is an Advisory Fellow of the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the University of Southern California, on the Market Steering Committee of Impact Manager, and serves on the Board of Directors of CompuMentor. She earned her B.A. from Yale University where she captained the lacrosse team and played field hockey. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Leslie Andrews, BA

Leslie Andrews, Research Associate, supports Blueprint's work through primary and secondary research, data analysis, and writing for client projects. Most recently, she worked at a nonprofit residential facility for emotionally impaired teenagers. She has been involved in a variety of issues including community activism, violence prevention, labor relations and racial/ethnic diversity. Leslie holds a B.A. in sociology and philosophy from the University of Michigan.
leslie@blueprintrd.com

Jack Chin, MA

Jack Chin, Senior Analyst and Vice President of Organizational Learning, has ten years of grantmaking experience focusing on education and the environment. He has served as Co-Director of the Funders’ Forum on Environment and Education; Program Officer at the GAP Foundation; and Program Fellow for the Environment at The San Francisco Foundation. Jack has also served on the Management Committee of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. He has an extensive background in environmental education and environmental studies, having been a board member, consultant, and staff member for a number of local and national nonprofit organizations and foundations. Jack previously worked in college student services administration at Oberlin College and Stanford University. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.

Stephanie Fuerstner Gillis, MPP

Stephanie Fuerstner Gillis serves as Blueprint's Chief Operating Officer. Prior to her current role as COO, Stephanie worked at Blueprint as an Analyst, Senior Analyst and Vice President. She has an extensive background in program strategy, program design, and evaluation, and substantive expertise in the areas of youth development, arts education, family foundations, and philanthropy, among other issues. She arrived at Blueprint with nearly ten years of non-profit and management experience, having served as the Associate Director for Development & Evaluation at the Youth Leadership Institute (a Bay Area youth development organization), and having worked with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research, and the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies. She has served on the Boards of a number or organizations, including College Kids and Food Runners. Ms. Gillis has a Master of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with a focus on youth development policy, and a B.A. in political science /international relations from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Tina Joh, MA

Tina Joh, Analyst, has worked in the philanthropic industry for ten years. As a consultant and staff member, she has worked for affinity groups, regional associations of grantmakers, foundations and nonprofits. She brings a background in community activism, women’s issues and social justice philanthropy. Before coming to Blueprint she worked as the director of research for the Minnesota Council on Foundations, where she analyzed regional foundation and corporate giving, created common grant and reporting forms, and implemented a grantmakers’ diversity study. She has also worked for community development and affordable housing nonprofits. Tina has extensive experience with various qualitative research methods and has conducted research and analysis for projects such as corporate funding for the arts, how foundations measure their community impact, and cultural competency in program evaluation. Tina has an M.A. in public affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, and a B.A. from Indiana University.

Lori Jones

Lori Jones is Blueprint’s Business Manager. She is responsible for various operations and infrastructure matters, as well as special projects. She brings practical skills and interdisciplinary perspectives from her experience as a nonprofit administrator, a program staff member for a private family foundation, a number of years in professional services (legal and financial consulting) firms, and service on the management committees of several nonprofit boards. She holds a B.A. degree in Integral Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Justin Louie, MPP

Justin Louie, Senior Analyst, leads Blueprint's practice in evaluation of advocacy, policy change, and social change efforts. He has a background in foundation and nonprofit program design and evaluation, as well as grassroots organizing and leadership development.  While at Blueprint, Justin has managed research and evaluation projects for the Tides Foundation, The California Endowment and Media Justice Fund, among others.  Before Blueprint, he served as a nonprofit program manager and as president of a national nonprofit board of directors.  Most recently before joining Blueprint, he worked at Policy Analysis for California Education conducting an evaluation of childcare workforce development programs.  He has experience in a broad range of issue areas, including youth leadership, education policy, HIV prevention, nonprofit organizational development and lesbian/gay rights. Justin holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master in Public Policy degree from Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.

Amy Luckey, MA

Amy Luckey, Senior Analyst, has been providing program evaluation and design assistance to Blueprint clients since 2001. Amy has led evaluation and program strategy projects for The California Endowment, The California HealthCare Foundation, CompuMentor, and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, among others. Amy has a background in nonprofit coalition-building, political organizing and advocacy, and mission-driven uses of technology. Prior to Blueprint, Amy worked with TechRocks, helping national progressive organizations strategically use technology tools to amplify their organizing capacities. At TechRocks, she ran one of the earliest online organizing campaigns, mobilizing 300,000 citizens for the Heritage Forests Campaign. Previously, at the Environmental League of Massachusetts, she directed a coalition of nonprofits advocating for strong state environmental policies and laws. Along with her experiences working with a broad range of nonprofits, she brings qualitative and quantitative research skills to Blueprint. Amy holds a Masters degree from Harvard University, where she studied the social and political impacts of nonprofits, and a B.A. in sociology and psychology from Indiana University.

Judi Powell, Ph.D.

Judi Powell, Senior Analyst, has extensive grantmaking experience in the areas of education, youth development and early childhood. Prior to joining Blueprint, she served as Senior Program Officer at Peninsula Community Foundation where she directed the largest grant portfolio and the foundation's scholarships program. In addition, she led the foundation's development of logic models in each of its eight grantmaking issue areas. As a Policy Analyst at SRI International, Dr. Powell evaluated national, regional and local education reform projects. Her evaluation competencies include case study development, interviews, survey design and focus group facilitation. Through her volunteer work, Dr. Powell has assisted several Bay Area organizations with fund development, board capacity building and strategic planning. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University's School of Education.

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