Ellen Koenig

Ellen Koenig Senior Program Officer New Hampshire Charitable Foundation 37 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301 www.nhcf.org

"Working with the SCENE funders and the Nonprofit Center to help bring cutting edge learning and practices to New Hampshire nonprofits has been fascinating.  So much great learning exists in the field, and I believe the NH Center is uniquely positioned to bring the sector together in our state and help some tremendous things to happen.  I am proud to be a part of this work."

Ellen has been a Senior Program Officer at the New Hampshire Charitable since 2000.  In addition to regular grant-making work, Ellen also coordinates the Corporate Fund, a philanthropic collection of NH's most generous companies; e-cares, a philanthropic imitative of NH's technology community, and the Walker Fund, which donates funding to NH public schools.  Ellen is also deeply immersed in a project to bring funders together to better support the strength of all NH nonprofits.  Prior to joining the NH Charitable Foundation, Ellen was Co-Executive Director at Granite State Independent Living in Concord.  Ellen began her work career as a sign language interpreter, and greatly misses the days when she used to interpret for all the political candidates coming through the state.

Ellen lives in Concord with her family, which at this point includes 3 terrific teenagers (most days, anyway.)