• Joan Lipsitz (Board Chair) - Independent Consultant & Senior Fellow, MDC; Program Director, Lilly Endowment. Inc., Founder and Director, Center for Early Adolescence, UNC-Chapel Hill
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  Beth Maxwell (Vice Chair)- is retired as executive director of the Volunteer Center of Durham. A long-time Durham resident, she has served on numerous boards, including Durham Regional Hospital,
  The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, and Big Brothers Big Sisters. She has been president of the Durham United Way, The Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties, and Pearsontown PTA
• Don Wells (Board Secretary) - Independent Consultant; Former Director, Duke University Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management; Former Executive Director, Durham County Habitat for Humanity; Former Principal, Carolina Friends School
• Thomas Cogswell (Board Treasurer) - CPA (retired) with extensive finance and accounting senior management experience working with both for profit companies (Group Controller for FKI plc) and non profits (Finance Director for Durham's Partnership for Children)
• Laura Benson – Executive Director, Lutheran Family Services of the Carolinas. She was Executive Director of PLM Families Together, Executive Director of the Durham Interfaith Network, a Pastor in United Methodist Churches, and Program Director at CROS Urban Ministries in West Palm Beach, Florida
• Perry Colwell - Senior VP, Financial Management, AT&T (retired)
• Dave Gettles – currently a consultant and Client relations manager with ESC. Dave also has a practice as an executive coach and management consultant, and he teaches business coaching at NC State. Retired from Nationwide Insurance
  
  
  
  • Mike Gulley – Director of Annual Giving and Stewardship at the WakeMed Foundation. Prior to WakeMed, Mike had positions as Senior Development Officer for N C State University Libraries, Director of Development for Curamericas and Campaign Manager for United Way - Bay Area, San Francisco
  • Joe Glasson - Corporate Vice President, Allstate Insurance Company and former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of a privately held insurance holding company (retired)

• Linda Stryker-Luftig – currently an ESC consultant, Linda worked in public relations, corporate communications and marketing for 13 years for several different financial institutions, most recently First Union (now Wells Fargo). She is a past president of Fearrington Cares, and formerly Vice Chairman of Leadership America, one of the nation's premier organizations dedicated to women's leadership
• Gracie Johnson-Lopez - Senior Vice President of Administration/Human Resources at North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham. Earlier she held positions as a Diversity Trainer and Independent Consultant with J & J Executive Consultants in Durham, as Director of Human Resources at the NC School of Science and Mathematics, and as Diversity Advocate at Duke University Medical Center
• Jonathan Mills - Founder, Kidzu Children’s Museum
• Ruth A. Peebles - Founder and President of The INS Group (Innovative Nonprofit Solutions). She has been an instructor in the Duke University Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management and an Adjunct Instructor at NC State, and is a founding member of the NGAAP Fund ( Next Generation of African American Philanthropists)