Tony Macklin (He/Him)

Director, Advisor Practice

A Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy®, Tony helps donors, families, grantmakers, and their advisors and associations answer questions about shared purpose, use of resources for social impact, governance, strategy, and assessment. He is a frequent speaker, trainer, and author for the same audiences. 

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He served four years as executive director of the Roy A. Hunt Foundation, a multi-generational family foundation. While there, he facilitated a visioning process and changes in investment management, impact investing, grantmaking, trustee education, and back-office management. In twelve years at the Central Indiana Community Foundation, he led grantmaking and community change initiatives, advised generous entrepreneurs and families, attracted $39 million in assets and co-investments, and co-founded a social enterprise. Before that he managed technical assistance and financing programs for the State of Indiana’s Community Development Division. 

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Tony was raised in Indiana and now lives in Pittsburgh. He is a member of the National Network for Consultants to Grantmakers and Purposeful Planning Institute. He also serves as a senior consultant for the National Center for Family Philanthropy, senior consultant with Ekstrom Alley Clontz & Associates, and senior advisor to the Impact Finance Center. He’s reviewed proposals for a wide variety of funders and purposes, co-founded a giving circle, and served on more task forces and committees than he can remember.