ELLEN CLEAR
Vice President, Grantmaking

As vice president of grantmaking, Ellen is responsible for the direction and management of grantmaking throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

Ellen joined Peninsula Community Foundation in 1995 and led community endowment grantmaking to local nonprofit organizations. Prior to this, Ellen had worked with nonprofit agencies in San Francisco, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., as a financial analyst for an investment bank and as a newspaper reporter in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Ellen holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard and a bachelor’s degree in political economy from U.C. Berkeley. She is a fourth generation Bay Area native and the proud mother of fifth generation Bay Area natives, Henry and Sophia.