Kathy Partridge is Executive Director of Interfaith Funders, a collaborative of secular and faith-based social justice grantmakers supporting congregation-based community organizing. Kathy’s been an organizer in Mississippi, Europe, and Colorado on social justice, women's, and peace issues, and is an active member of a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
Kathy has led environmental, media and service non-profit organizations in management, development, communications, and volunteer coordination, from the local to the international level. She was Program Officer with the Needmor Fund for ten years, where her grantmaking focused on community organizing nationwide, the US South, welfare reform, and independent media. She co-authored the National Network of Grantmakers Common Grant Application, and was awarded the honorary status of “Elder” at NNG’s 25th Anniversary in 2005. She was on the Grassroots Global Justice delegation to the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India in 2004.
Since 1985, Kathy has been a radio host and producer at Denver-Boulder’s community station KGNU, and represented the station at an AMARC global community radio conference in Nicaragua in 1989. A graduate of the University of Colorado (Peace and Conflict Studies), in August 2008 she will receive an MA at Regis University in Social Justice Philanthropy and Community Organizing. Kathy lives, hikes, and gardens in Boulder County, Colorado.
