Donna Hall
President & CEO of Women Donors Network, Donna P. Hall, MPH, MBA, has devoted
nearly 20 years to such national organizations as The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Donna's dedication to economic justice, reproductive rights, education, woman's
rights in the workplace, international development, and progressive philanthropy
has allowed her career to crisscross the public and private sectors.
As an Associate Director of an international grantmaking portfolio, Donna helped
develop a framework to address the challenges that face women in international
workplaces. She has also served as a manager, strategic planner, foundation
executive, and deputy director of a woman's think tank.
Donna joined WDN in 2002 for the opportunity to "further strengthen and
empower the progressive movement for change through my work with individual
members, as well as through representation of the collective body that is WDN."
"We are all united by similar values and the desire to be empowered as
women, philanthropists, and activists," Donna says. "The whole, as
a group, is a power in itself."
In her spare time, Donna enjoys spending time with her husband and three sons,
as well as their two dogs. Her hobbies include traveling, hiking and listening
to classical and jazz music.
She has an undergraduate degree from Stanford, a master's degree from the University
of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Stanford. Donna is a former program
manager for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and former associate director
of the Rockefeller Foundation. She has served on the boards of Planned Parenthood
and the National Organization for Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention.