PAT KRACKOV
Program Officer

As program officer, Pat is part of the team that works on corporate and community endowment grantmaking initiatives at Silicon Valley Community Foundation. She joined the community foundation in July 2007.

Pat has nearly 25 years of experience in community economic development and nonprofit strengthening. She has worked as a foundation grantmaker – including more than five years with the Ford Foundation in Mexico City where she provided grants for activities related to microfinance, affordable housing, rural development and women’s economic security. At the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund of the U.S. Treasury Department, Pat made grants, loans and equity investments to build the capacity of community development financial institutions to provide credit, capital and financial services to underserved populations and communities in the United States. Most recently, Pat was director for the Northern California site of the Nonprofit Finance Fund where she oversaw the provision of loans and financially-oriented technical assistance to nonprofits of all kinds in seven counties—from Marin to Monterey.

Pat speaks fluent Spanish and has conducted technical assistance, training and grantmaking activities in a variety of Latin American countries in addition to Mexico, as well as in the United States. She grew up in California’s San Joaquin Valley, and earned a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley and a master’s in international relations from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. Pat has a teenage son, Gabriel, who is mid-way through college and with whom she enjoys speaking Spanish and trying new restaurants.