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Heather Smith

Manager of Partnerships, YouthTruth

Heather helps schools across the country drive change through student and community feedback.

Prior to joining YouthTruth, Heather developed and ran educational programming across diverse STEM learning spaces including building robust career pathways into the tech sector and partnering with Bay Area schools to implement outdoor environmental science programming. She has a degree in Environmental Sciences from Willamette University in Salem, OR; the place that kickstarted her love of education and working closely with students, educators, and school communities.

Heather now lives in Oakland, CA where you can find her spending time with family and friends, wandering the aisles of grocery stores for fun cooking ingredients, or hiking with her cat Franklin.

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Recent Blogs

As Fiscal Hosting Expands, What Philanthropy Should KnowPaula Castells Carrión Governance and Localization Consultant, Trust, Accountability, and Inclusion Collaborative
As Fiscal Hosting Expands, What Philanthropy Should Know

At its core, fiscal hosting refers to a model in which a nonprofit organization extends its legal and tax-exempt status to a project or initiative, enabling it to receive and manage funding without establishing a separate legal entity. Over time, this approach has...

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When Federal Policy Retreats, Local Action Must LeadRip Rapson President and CEO, The Kresge FoundationShamar Bibbins Managing Director, Environment Program, The Kresge Foundation
When Federal Policy Retreats, Local Action Must Lead

When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this year that it was reversing the Endangerment Finding — the long-standing federal policy establishing that greenhouse gases pose a clear and present danger to public health — climate deniers...

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Shifting Out of Neutral Phil Buchanan President, CEP
Shifting Out of Neutral 

Institutional neutrality has been all the rage these past few years, but it is time to recognize that it is a fallacy. Let me start with some background. Since the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel, after which many CEOs took heat for their public...

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