TEDxPittsburgh - Grant Oliphant - 10 Seconds
Channel: TEDx Talks
Date: 2011-12-05

Grant is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pittsburgh Foundation. Under his leadership, the Foundation has undergone a major transformation in community engagement and has played major roles in launching of the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program and development of PittsburghGives, an on-line giving and research portal that raised $13.5 million in two years for local nonprofit
organizations. Press Secretary to U.S. Senator John Heinz, until the senator's untimely death in 1991, Grant frequently leads community discussions on critical issues and has taken a prominent role in building advocacy groups to support the Pittsburgh nonprofit community and the families they serve. Grant earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his M.S. in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University.

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