Dana Lanza

Co-Founder, President and CEO, Confluence Philanthropy

Dana founded Confluence Philanthropy in 2009 after serving as the executive director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA). While at EGA, Dana provided networking services to over 250 grantmaking organizations from across North America and Europe. As director, Dana worked with the Rockefeller Family Fund, and led a then 20-year old EGA into an independent 501c3 organization. From 2009-2011 Dana served as the Director and Board Advisor at The Swift Foundation while launching Confluence. Earlier in her career, Dana founded Literacy for Environmental Justice, a San Francisco based youth organization which won the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Award. Confluence Philanthropy’s mission is to transform the practice of investing by aligning capital with values of sustainability, equity, and justice. Confluence supports and catalyzes a membership network of 270 private, public and community foundations; family offices; individual donors; and their values-aligned investment advisors representing more than $92B in philanthropic assets under management, and over $4T in managed capital. Confluence leads a $2 Trillion investor coalition for racial equity; and a climate solutions working group of paradigm shifting investors.