Kim Meredith
Kim Meredith ‘78 recently joined the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society as Executive Director on July 1st, 2009. She previously served as the Chief Development Officer for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she and her development staff raised the restricted and unrestricted revenue to support the national office program work for public policy, advocacy, online, affiliate services, litigation, new business and international. Kim and her team also funded the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for the 2008 election cycle. PPFA is the leader of the reproductive rights movement and health care serving 3 million patients, engaging 4 million advocates, and serving 15 million clients online.
Prior to joining PPFA in September 2006, Kim served for nearly nine years as the Chief Operating Officer at Planned Parenthood Golden Gate where she was responsible the development department, medical services and human resources. She was the Chair of PPFA’s Development Officer’s Council from 2004 to 2006 with over 100 affiliates participating. She worked in the real estate industry for three years and at AT&T for nearly ten years in San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta and Los Angeles—before, during, and after the historic divestiture and deregulation.
In addition, she currently serves on the Board of Directors of the George Lucas Education Foundation. Kim was President of the Junior League of Palo Alto Mid-Peninsula, and Board Chair for Planned Parenthood San Mateo County where she supported the Executive Director in the merger of three Planned Parenthood affiliates into Planned Parenthood Golden Gate. In 2005, she received a fellowship to attend the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.
Kim has been married to her husband, Allen ’72 (Economics), for more than thirty years. They are the parents of Alexis ’09 (International Relations, MA '10 Sociology) and enjoy running, golf, traveling, and skiing together.
Student Testimonial
PACS Undergraduate Lauren Finzer '09 speaks about the influential role PACS had on her Stanford academic career and how PACS is creating the next generation of philanthropic change agents.
PIPE Conference
PACS recently hosted a research conference to launch the project on Private Initiatives in Public Education (PIPE) that brought together leading scholars and practitioners who are working on projects related to emerging trends and cross-sector innovations in public education. Specifically, the conference explored the following themes:
1) The influence of philanthropic and private intermediary organizations in education;
2) Models of organizing diverse providers (charters and district schools) of public education;
3) Innovations in the development of human capital for education;
4) Entrepreneurship in the era of Obama.
The conference also set out to establish an agenda for future research in these areas.
