Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) today announced the addition of four new board members to its Board of Directors in 2025:
- Mark D. Constantine (Dogwood Health Trust)
- Jillian Kelly (Next50 Foundation)
- Claire Louis (Enterprise Community Partners)
- Vivian Nava-Schellinger (The SCAN Foundation)
- Jaime Renner (Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies).
They will serve under the leadership of the Executive Committee including Peggy Maguire, Chair (Cambia Health Foundation); Neel Hajra, Vice Chair (Michigan Health Endowment Fund); Jasmine Lacsamana, Secretary (Archstone Foundation); Amber Slichta, Treasurer (The Boston Foundation); and alongside continuing board members, Marcus Escobedo (The John A. Hartford Foundation); Renée Espinoza (Metta Fund); Josh Hodges (National Council on Aging); Kelly Kent (May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust); Timothy A. Lash (Gary and Mary West Foundation); Earl Millett (The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation); Dianne Oliver (The West End Home Foundation); Anne Posner (RRF Foundation for Aging); and federal liaison, Kelly Cronin (Administration for Community Living).
“I’m excited to welcome our new board members and look forward to working with this exceptional group of leaders who bring geographic diversity, housing and rural expertise, and a wealth of experience in aging and health philanthropy to GIA,” said CEO Lindsay Goldman.
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Mark joined Dogwood Health Trust in April 2023 after serving as President and CEO of Richmond Memorial Health Foundation (RMHF) for seven years. He has worked to align mission and money through impact investing strategies and has contributed to health philanthropy through his service as Board Chair of Virginia Funders Network and as a faculty member for Grantmakers in Health Terrance Keenan Institute for Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy.
Mark is an author and holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business (Duke University) and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Duke Divinity School. He was a 2006/2007 Fellow of the Emerging Leaders Program directed by the Centres for Leadership at Public Values at the University of Cape Town and Duke University.
Jillian joined Next50 in March 2021 and is now the Vice President of Impact. In this role, she oversees Next50’s impact department, ensuring that grants and other investments align for maximum impact and support a community where older adults thrive. Jillian’s career has been focused on improving the experience of aging in Colorado, and her past work has been in nonprofit and government settings working with programming for older adults and their caregivers.
Jillian received her bachelor's degree and master’s degree in social work from Colorado State University. She completed a fellowship in gerontological social work during her master’s program and holds a LCSW.
Claire Louis has spent the last 17 years serving underrepresented communities in the housing space. Since 2022, she has served as the Director of Enterprise Community Partners’ Thome Aging Well Program, which funds organizations that support older adults with lower incomes aging in community in Michigan and Maryland. Prior to that, she was the Director of Community Housing for Northern Virginia Family Service, administering more than thirteen distinct Federal and local housing programs in that region.
Claire earned both her master’s degree in counseling and bachelor’s degree in journalism from Howard University and graduate certificates in child welfare and gerontology from the University of Southern California. She is a HUD certified housing counselor and is completing coursework to earn a master’s degree in real estate development from the University of Maryland.
Vivian Nava-Schellinger is Director of Community Impact and California Partnerships for The SCAN Foundation. She leads the strategic development of the Foundation’s internal equity and inclusion frameworks, and the organization’s strategic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan across all focus areas. Prior to her work at The SCAN Foundation, Vivian worked for the National Council on Aging (NCOA) where she led the organization’s engagement with national and community partners.
Vivian received her Juris Doctorate from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Phoenix, and the University of Texas at El Paso, where she earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in political science and legal reasoning and a Master of Science in national security studies.
Jaime joined MACP in February 2020 as a program officer for the Quality of Life domain. In this role, Jaime leads the development and implementation of the domain’s aging program strategy and grant-making plan. This work includes building partnerships with grant recipients and other key individuals and institutions, measuring and analyzing program impact and effectiveness, and developing and overseeing grants.
Before joining MACP, Jaime spent 14 years as a program officer with the Minnesota Office of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency overseeing the grant distribution for Senior Corps and AmeriCorps VISTA programs. Prior to that role, Jaime managed programs serving older adults in central Minnesota at Catholic Charities of St. Cloud Foster Grandparent Program. Jaime holds a master’s degree in gerontology and a bachelor’s degree in psychology, from St. Cloud State University.