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Editor-in-Chief, Special issues
The Foundation Review, Johnson Center for Philanthropy, United States
Dr. Hanh Cao Yu is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Foundation Review, Special Issues and a strategic philanthropic learning and evaluation consultant for Adaptive Solutions. From 2016 to 2023, she served as the Chief Learning Officer at The California Endowment (TCE) where she oversaw learning, strategic development, evaluation, and impact activities, and ensured that local and state grantees, board and staff understood the results and lessons of the Foundation’s investments in its 10-year Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative. BHC focused on social determinants of health, policy systems change through a community-driven, power building approach.
Dr. Yu’s career spans three decades in the research, evaluation, and philanthropic sectors. Prior to joining TCE, she was Vice President at Social Policy Research Associates. Dr. Yu has expertise in culturally responsive, equitable evaluation, in the areas of health and racial equity, social change philanthropy, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, policy advocacy evaluation, community organizing, movement building, and vulnerable populations. As a researcher at Stanford University, Dr. Yu is the author of numerous publications, including Adolescent World: Navigating the Multiple Worlds of Family, Peers, and School (Teachers’ College Press, 1998), The Handbook on Leadership Development Evaluation (Jossey-Bass, 2006), Her recent writings can be found in the Stanford Social Innovation Review Philanthropic Investment in Power and Building People Power Series. Dr. Yu is a national leader in philanthropy, research, learning & evaluation, serving on the Board of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the National Academy of Science on Population Health Improvement, Partnership for Health Equity, and an ambassador for the Trust-based Philanthropy Project.
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