Director, Build at Ford Foundation
Kathy Reich leads the Ford Foundation’s BUILD initiative, a $1 billion initiative to strengthen institutions to fight inequality both in the United States and in the foundation’s 10 global regions. Before joining Ford in 2016, Kathy worked for 15 years at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, most recently as organizational effectiveness and philanthropy director, where she led a cross-cutting program to help grantees around the world strengthen their strategy, leadership and impact. Prior to that, she was policy director of a non-profit, served as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill, and worked for state and local elected officials in California. Kathy currently serves on the board of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and co-chairs the Fund for Shared Insight. She was selected as a Schusterman Fellow in 2016.
