NFF welcomes new Board member Lisa Hall of Calvert Foundation

Nonprofit Finance Fund is excited to welcome Lisa Hall to our Board of Directors.  Ms. Hall leads Calvert Foundation as President and CEO, a post she assumed in January 2011. Having joined Calvert Foundation in 2005, Ms. Hall’s background includes nearly 25 years of industry experience at multiple policy and financial posts.

“Lisa’s deep and diverse experience within our sector will be a tremendous asset to the NFF Board,” said Elizabeth Sullivan, NFF Board Chair. “The strategic innovation she has demonstrated throughout her career will be useful to NFF as it puts capital to work in ways both traditional and new towards solving social problems.”

Ms. Hall has held positions in real estate and community development finance with the Enterprise Foundation, JP Morgan Chase and Travelers Insurance. She holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard University. In 2003, Ms. Hall participated in the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a travel program for emerging leaders from the US and Europe.

“I have admired NFF’s work for a long time,” said Lisa Hall. “I look forward to engaging more directly in NFF’s mission to create a well-capitalized social sector that can effectively meet community needs.” In addition to her role on the NFF Board, Ms. Hall serves on the board of the Tides Network. She also serves on the executive committee of ANDE (Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs) and the Board of Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC. Ms. Hall lives in Northeast Washington, DC with her husband and young daughter.