Barbara+Kibbe

VP of Client Services at the Monitor Institute; Partner at Monitor Group Based in San Francisco
 * Barbara Kibbe**

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Barbara Kibbe is Monitor Institute’s vice president of client services, based in San Francisco, and a partner at Monitor. She has over twenty-five years of experience in social change and philanthropy as an executive, consultant, grantmaker, and foundation program director, and Barbara was twice selected by the Nonprofit Times for its annual list of the fifty most powerful and influential people in the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining Monitor, Barbara served as vice president for program and effectiveness at the Skoll Foundation and, prior to that, as the director of the Organizational Effectiveness and Philanthropy Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she directed a total of $100 million in grants aimed at enhancing the capacity of foundation grantees and promoting greater effectiveness in the field of philanthropy. She also founded Harder+Kibbe Research and Consulting, a leading advisory services firm that worked with community, family, and corporate foundations, as well as a wide range of health, human service, and cultural organizations.

Barbara is the coauthor of two books—Succeeding with Consultants and Grantmaking Basics—and her essay “Reflections on the Journey” is included in the 2004 collection Funding Effectiveness: Lessons in Building Nonprofit Capacity. She is a founder of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), a group of more than 700 funders dedicated to building knowledge, promoting learning, and encouraging dialogue on nonprofit and grantmaker effectiveness. Barbara recently concluded terms on the boards of GEO, the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and Fieldstone Alliance.