Testimonials
“I was new to philanthropy when I met and worked with Misha. She was everything I wished I had encountered as a program director on the non-profit direct service side. She led by example and showed me what grantmaking could look like in relationship and partnership with community. She asks thoughtful questions, invites meaningful dialogue, and feeds collaboration with genuine excitement and idea scaffolding. Misha consistently approached grantmaking and her work more broadly from the lens of partnership and authenticity. She cared about the community I care about and helped me design meaningful initiatives that continue to positively impact our region today. I will forever be grateful for her insight, hard work, and dedication. Thank you Misha, Looking forward to an opportunity to work with you again! ”
— Veronica Blea, Program Officer at The Conrad Prebys Foundation
“Misha brings great passion, drive, and strategic thinking to everything she does. As an engagement manager at Open Impact, she has lead projects to support clients with large scale philanthropic assets of $B+ scale up their impact, helping them define their vision, values, issue areas of interest, and launch grantmaking initiatives to support transformative change on some of the most important issues of our time.
Misha is an excellent manager of teams and projects. She leads research efforts to bring forward data and evidence to more deeply understand problems and offer solutions. She also expertly crafts and facilitates client and stakeholder workshops to get to the heart of challenges and tensions a client is holding in order to align key stakeholders around a final plan/deliverable that can be owned and implemented by the client.
She also brings a contagious joy and optimism to ever project she takes on, modeling how to be a collaborative team member every step of the way. She loves people and is a natural mentor and advisor to those she works with.”— Alexa Cortes Culwell, Open Impact Founder/ Chief Impact Officer, The Sobrato Organization; President, Sobrato Philanthropies
“I am deeply thankful for the contributions you have made to Tostan's strategic potential. From your diligent follow-up to your flexibility and rapid advancement during projects, and of course your ability to work with so many different people across many Tostan teams, we have benefited so much from your guidance and support. Thank you - and please know you are always welcome at Tostan!”
— Elena Bonometti, Chief Executive Officer of Tostan
I’ve Led and/or delivered 35+ projects working with nonprofit and funder clients. At Spring Impact I had an average 9.2 Net Promoter Score, and was nicknamed ‘client whisperer’ due to ability to create meaningful partnerships.