Consultant
SARAH HANSEN
Sarah Hansen consults with foundations and nonprofit organizations to advance multi-issue, progressive social change agendas. She specializes in developing big-picture strategies and long-term visions connected to concrete, manageable work plans.
Sarah currently serves as program advisor to the Elias Foundation in Westchester County, N.Y., which seeks to promote a more equitable society by supporting community organizing. She also leads an initiative at the Ford Foundation to increase the impact of social justice community philanthropy.
Previously Sarah served as the associate director and senior program officer of the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, grantmaking in the environmental health and climate change arenas. She also led the Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation through a theory of change process and helped the fund determine its $8 million grants portfolio. Prior to that, Sarah served for eight years as executive director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association, providing leadership in connecting environmental issues to issues such as globalization, economic inequality, racial justice and community empowerment. Sarah founded the Funders Network on Trade and Globalization and helped establish the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health. Sarah recently served as a board member of the North Star Fund, one of New York City's leading community foundations dedicated to building social change. Sarah lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her partner, Sally Kohn, and their two-year-old daughter, Willa.
