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At the Helm
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Tuti B. Scott
Tuti Scott serves as a “Chief Inspiration Officer” and coach to countless leaders and teams. With more than 30 years educating and energizing bold changemakers, Tuti has advised on strategic planning, succession planning, governance, and talent development. A dynamic facilitator and speaker,“Coach Tuti” invigorates audiences and helps boards and leaders navigate growth, shape the focus and scale of their work, strengthen culture, and achieve sustainability.
Tuti had an in-depth, decade-long tenure with Tides, a global foundation and fiscal sponsor that has incubated hundreds of social entrepreneurial organizations in its 40-year history. Tuti served on the board from 2010-2020 with three years as Board Chair and stepped in as Interim CEO for 18 months including during 2020 when Tides supported its partners in mobilizing $1.3 billion in philanthropic dollars.
During her time at the Women’s Sports Foundation, Tuti and her team engaged thousands of supporters to raise $70 million over 15 years for the women’s sports movement in the 90’s and 00’s upholding Title IX, supporting women’s leadership in sports, and securing equal access to all sports for all women and girls.
For the past 15 years, her firm (formerly called Imagine Philanthropy) has advised a variety of blue chip organizations including Equal Rights Advocates, Root Capital, Collective Power, Farm Sanctuary, and more. She has assisted renowned founders and fierce feminists in their activist journeys including Geena Davis, Serene Jones, Julie Foudy, Billie Jean King,and Jane Sloane. In addition, her consulting work has included guiding coalitions and networks such as The Equal Pay Today Campaign, Women Moving Millions, the Jewish Women’s Funding Network, and mulitple cohorts for leaders of Women’s Funding Network and its member funds.
In her current work Tuti leads workshops and coaches individuals on values aligned investing, moving money with a gender and racial justice lens, and mobilizing philanthropic dollars for justice. Her publications include Money, Gender, and Power - A Guide to Funding with a Gender Lens (2019) and Moving Money for Impact - A Guide to Investing with a Gender Lens (2020). She is an Invest for Better partner, an LP in How Women Invest, serves on the Advisory Board of Nia Impact Capital, and produces Women&Money Making Money Moves that Matter events on and off line.
Tuti served for six years on the Women’s Funding Network board and was a founding board member of Women Win. Tuti’s collective body of work inspires women to get in the games of money, leadership, and embodied power. She approaches her work with the drive and commitment of a lifelong athlete and point guard and the passion of a goal oriented “gender avenger” and “class jumper”.
Contact: tuti@tutiscott.com - LinkedIn
EQUITY & INCLUSION TEAM LEAD
Gwendolyn VanSant
Gwendolyn VanSant is an experienced organizational change consultant and coach who works at the intersection of diversity leadership, equity and inclusion, and strategic planning. She serves as a non-profit leader as the CEO and Founding Executive Director of BRIDGE and the principal & owner of consulting firm, Equity in Practice, LLC. A skilled community organizer, Gwendolyn is also a well-recognized thought leader on racial justice, reparations, gender equity and anti-poverty work. She is a pioneer in integrating research-based positive psychology practices into her equity and inclusion approach.
A longtime activist, Gwendolyn has founded several initiatives based on the principles of equity and justice, the inherent dignity and worth of individuals, and our interconnected web of humanity. Her most recent accomplishment in 2020 is leading the community effort to rename the middle school, W.E.B.Du Bois Middle School over the finish line in the last 3 years.
In September 2021, Gwendolyn received national recognition as the Drum Major for Justice by the National Community Action Council for her anti-poverty mutual aid response at a community level to the negative impact of COVID on the most vulnerable communities and the design of the New Pathways program to provide education in equity and justice across all sectors in the forms of labs, talks, conferences and learning modules including speakers like Angela Davis and Dr. Beverly Tatum.
Gwendolyn currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Town of Great Barrington W. E.B.Du Bois Legacy Committee and has served on the Host Committee for the Elizabeth Freeman Monument. She is on the United States Attorney Office Civil Rights Task Force, Advisory Board of Greylock Federal Credit Union’s Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) program, incorporator for Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and she is a board member of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire, Trauma Research Foundation and Shakespeare & Company.
Gwendolyn also served on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health COVID-19 Communication Advisory Panel and published a chapter showcasing her IDEA approach in the textbook, Diversity matters: The Color, Shape and Tone of 21st Century Diversity.
Contact: gwendolyn@equityinpractice.llc - LinkedIn