We are executives, educators, entrepreneurs and community leaders. We enjoy investing time, talent and treasure to empower leaders to strengthen nonprofits that together help over 50,000 low-income youth each year achieve against the odds.
As Board and Executive Council members, we collectively volunteer more than 575 hours and personally give more than $30,000 each year. Together with staff, we fuel the exponential impact of our tuition-free City Scholars
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100% of online donations sponsor our tuition-free City Scholars® Fellowship for Education.
By investing in leaders of afterschool and education nonprofits, we’re having an extremely leveraged impact on thousands of youth who rely on these programs … that’s why I’m so committed to supporting and promoting City Scholars® Foundation.
Carl Engle, Partner, Strategy & Operations
Deloitte Consulting, LLP
City Scholars® Foundation, Board Chair
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Carl Engle
Chairman
Board Officer
Partner, Strategy & Operations
Deloitte Consulting, LLP
Darin Kita
Board Member
Global Investment Control Senior Manager
Capital Group
Eric Johnson
Board Member
VP, Operations Manager
City National Bank
Janis Tanji Wong
Board Member
VP, Development and Strategic Initiatives
Go For Broke National Education Center
Katie Delaney, CPA
Board Member
Partner, Assurance Services
Ernst & Young
Kelli Ann Hogan
Founder & President/CEO
Board Officer
City Scholars® Foundation
Kim Nichols-Feder
Board Member
Head of Commercial Client Service & Implementation (Retired)
Bank of the West
Lindsay Kwock Hu, EdD
Board Member
Owner/Education Consultant
Dr. Lindsay Kwock Hu Consulting
Sam Pyo
Board Member
VP, Business Development Executive
JP Morgan Chase
Tracey Carpentier
Secretary/Treasurer
Board Officer
CEO (Retired)
ACT Holdings, LLC
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Betty LaMarr
CEO/Founder (Retired)
EmpowHer Institute
Foundation Fellow (2014 – 2020)
Jayson Gasper
Principal, Transformation & Restructuring
Deloitte Consulting, LLP
Jill McCullough
VP, West Region Community Relations Manager
U.S. Bank
Joy Hoshino
Corp VP, Human Resources (Retired)
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Kaitlyn Hennessy
Associate Director of Development
KIPP SoCal Public Schools
NextGEN Leader
Former Graduate Associate
Megan Ono, MNLM
Corporate Social Responsibility Strategic Planning & Operations
American Honda Motors Co., Inc.
NextGEN Leader
Former Graduate Associate
Melanie (Mimi) Johnson, CPA
Senior Manager, Assurance Services
Ernst & Young
Milinda Martin
Chief Operating Officer (Retired)
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
Sal Mendoza
SVP, Community Reinvestment (Retired)
City National Bank
Scott Pansky
Senior Partner & Co-Founder
Allison + Partners
Tracey Scherry
Tax Partner, Transaction Advisory Services (Retired)
Ernst & Young
Ugwunna Ikpeowo
Chief Operating Officer
Kwanza Jones & José E. Feliciano SUPERCHARGED Initiative
FOUNDATION STAFF
Emma Cappiello
Project Manager
City Scholars® Foundation
Kelli Ann Hogan
Founder & President/CEO
Board Officer
City Scholars® Foundation
Sigrid Rios
Executive Coordinator
City Scholars® Foundation
OUR STORY
As an undergraduate at Harvard, our Founder & President/CEO, Kelli Ann Hogan, dreamed of starting a foundation to help after-school programs better serve thousands of low-income youth like the young girl she mentored in the Boston public housing projects. Graduating with honors, Kelli established City Scholars® Foundation in 1993.
What the Foundation initially lacked in financial resources, Kelli made up for with her passion, determination and contagious enthusiasm that continues to inspire and engage donors and volunteers from all walks of life.
Since our humble beginnings in 1993, we’ve awarded small grants to neighborhood after-school programs (1994-1998); provided free training for after-school program leaders and staff (1999-2013); and, since 2014, sponsored our tuition-free City Scholars® Fellowship for Education to empower CEOs of education nonprofits that together help more than 50,000 predominantly low-income youth each year achieve against the odds.
. . . AND we’re just getting started.
Help us write our story.
100% of online donations support our City Scholars® Fellowship for Education.