PHILANTHROPYWORX - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• about Our Founder
• National Spokesperson

Allen Smart is a national spokesperson and advocate for improving rural philanthropic practice under his group -PhilanthropywoRx. He served as the Project Director for a national rural philanthropic project based at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina and supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He regularly consults with local, regional and national foundations and non-profits on rural and philanthropic strategy. Allen is the former Interim President, Vice President of Programs and director of the Health Care Division at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust. Prior to coming to the Trust in 2006, Allen was the Vice President of Programs at The Rapides Foundation, a healthcare conversion funder in Alexandria, Louisiana. He has also served as Director of Community Development for a midwestern Catholic hospital system and as Grants Administrator for the City of Santa Monica, California. Allen received his Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago, his Master of Arts in Telecommunication Arts from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Macalester College. As part of his personal and professional interest in philanthropy, Allen regularly writes for sites such as The Daily Yonder, Health Affairs, Center for Family Philanthropy, and Philanthropy Southeast, as well as presenting to national and regional groups like Grantmakers in Health, National Organization of the State Offices of Rural Health, Philanthropy Southwest, Philanthropy Northwest and the Colorado Rural Funders Network. He is a former member of the National Advisory Committee for the Rural Resource Hub at The University of North Dakota; the past Chair of the Culture of Health Prize Selection Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a Board member of Communities Joined in Action.

Job Titles:

• AHA Vice President for Strategic Policy Planning