Sara K. Gould

Gould grew up in Grand Haven, Michigan with five brothers and sisters. She was raised in a Christian background and as a young person was very involved in the church. Later, as an adult, she became "much more secular." Gould was married at age twenty and she followed her husband to Syracuse where he was attending law school. During her time in Syracuse, she began to see that she was following his dream instead of her own. Gould realized that she was "viewing her life through the prism of gender" and shortly after she left her marriage and went to graduate school at Harvard University. == Work ==

After graduating from Harvard, Gould went to work in Massachusetts with Community Development Corporations (CDCs), but she didn't feel fulfilled by the work. Gould relates that at the time, "the words 'women' and 'economic development' were not put in the same sentence; they were almost like an oxymoron." The project involved multiple funders to pool money together into a larger sum in order to lower individual groups' risk. There were several "anchor" funders who contributed half a million each, such as the Levi Strauss Foundation and the Charles Steward Mott Foundation. Gould served as president for the Ms. Foundation starting in 2004. During her time as president, she expanded grantmaking to further include community project that emphasized sustainable change. In 2011, Gould was a visiting fellow at the Foundation Center where she worked with Atlantic Philanthropies for two years providing research and activities on social justice philanthropy. After her time at the Foundation Center, she served as associate director of Caring Across Generations, a campaign to help those provide long-term home care, from April 2012 to January 2014. == References ==