Person: Grace Zitzler
Grace tracks and executes all steps in the grantmaking process for grantees to implement strategies and projects centered on reducing pollution from the U.S. industrial sector. She coordinates virtual and in-person convenings of advocates, funders, and other stakeholders, and serves as “air traffic control” for incoming communications and requests to the Clean Industry team. She … Continued
Person: Laura Schwantes
Laura supports the Local Power Program and the Southeast regional team by managing complex grants and contracts and relationships with grantees and consultants. She works with advocates and other partners to develop and implement tools and systems to support U.S. Energy Foundation’s strategy and grantmaking. She also manages projects within and outside her team, such … Continued
Person: Anthony Flowe
Anthony serves as the organization’s primary storyteller, responsible for ideating, executing, and overseeing content development for funders and other partners. Working with the Programs and Strategic Partnerships teams, Anthony synthesizes program insights into compelling stories highlighting U.S. Energy Foundation’s (EF) impact and lessons learned. He also serves as lead developer for a host of products, … Continued
Person: Sarah Elliott
Sarah leads the design and management of campaign strategies across the country that enable us to meet our climate and clean energy policy goals. She interfaces with funders and partners and works with regional teams to advise, support, and advance the campaigns. Previously, Sarah was Vice President of Programs at The Impact Project, where she … Continued
Person: Lauren Gutierrez
Lauren supports the organization’s corporate communications activities, including risk/crisis, brand, and reputation management. She ensures consistent and high-quality standards of communication internally and externally, and provides guidance to colleagues, grantees, and other stakeholders to support all communications activities and enhance everyone’s role as effective ambassadors of the organization. Most recently, Lauren served as a Communications … Continued
Person: Mohammad Makhlouf
Mohammad drives and ensures the quality of the accounting and finance operations at EF, working closely with the Senior Director of Finance to execute the strategic direction for financial management, accounting, and budgeting through joint coordination and oversight of a team of accounting colleagues. He continuously assesses the structure and delivery of the accounting functions … Continued
Person: Katie Cunningham
Katie manages daily operations, annual planning, long-term planning, and organizational budgeting. This includes synthesizing and reviewing program strategy, managing operations-related consultants, reviewing and approving a limited set of grant proposals, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of budgets, and serving as a board liaison. Most recently, Katie served as the Chief Operating Officer at RCG Talent … Continued