Terence Mulligan
President of the Napa Valley Community Foundation
Terence Mulligan is the president of the Napa Valley Community Foundation (NVCF), a nonprofit grantmaking organization that distributes between $3 million and $5 million annually to charitable projects in Napa County. Prior to joining the staff of NVCF, he spent three years at the Peninsula Community Foundation in Silicon Valley, helping to raise the visibility and asset base of the organization among individuals, families and corporations.
Terence has a mix of public and private sector experience, including jobs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Institute for International Economics and Accenture. In partnership with a highly engaged Board of Directors and a dedicated professional staff, Terence has tripled the asset base of NVCF and grown the organization’s discretionary grantmaking from $20,000 per year to nearly $1,000,000 per year since 2005. According to a survey of several thousand donors conducted by the nonprofit Center for Effective Philanthropy, NVCF is the top-rated community foundation in the US on two-thirds of the key measures related to donor satisfaction and impact. In 2011, NVCF was ranked as the 13th most active grantmaker among more than 750 community foundations across the country, and its innovative programs and community leadership work have served as a model for other foundations across California and the US.
Terence is a native of the Sacramento Valley and holds a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is the co-author of a 1996 Harvard Business School case study, Chiquita Brands, and was awarded the prestigious John Gardner Public Service Fellowship when he graduated with honors from UC Berkeley. Terence lives in Napa with his wife and two young kids.
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