Betsy serves as President/CEO of the Fund for Nonviolence as part of her longstanding, multi-decades long commitment to work on behalf of its donor. A graduate of Dartmouth College, she established the Fund for Nonviolence in 1997 as the primary vehicle for redistributing the donor’s lifetime excess income and now bequest assets. In 2000, in response to a need for rapid response funding, she initiated the Tides Death Penalty Mobilization Fund, an activist/funder collaborative structured to acknowledge funding power imbalances by requiring 3 activists per funder for decision making purposes; funding was for state-based organizations working on death penalty abolition and reform efforts. Since 2000 she was active with Funders for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP), including participating in an extensive, field-wide process to develop a comprehensive strategy to abolish the death penalty. Through FNV she now collaborates with the 8th Amendment Project, which among other activities has replaced FADP as a vehicle for funder coordination with the field. Betsy spent six formative years as a board officer with Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation; all other board members had lost a family member to murder and/or execution and opposed the death penalty in all cases. Betsy and her partner have three adult children and two young grandchildren.
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