“It takes more than capital to effect real change.” Jacqueline Novogratz
Our Core Strategic Team
Lydia Dean
Founder
Born in Ottawa, Canada--avid traveler, mother-of-three, writer and President/Founder of GoPhilanthropic. In 2000 Lydia left her job as an Executive Search Consultant to pursue a lifelong interest in travel and humanitarian programs. She and her family moved to Provence, France where they lived for 6 years while exploring many developing countries. In 2007 they returned to the US and launched GoPhilanthropic Travel. In 2010 GoPhilanthropic Foundation was formed in order to more actively partner with small grassroots non-profits around the world. Lydia splits her time between their home base in Los Angeles, Provence, and the regions within which GoPhil works.
Email: [email protected]
Born in Ottawa, Canada--avid traveler, mother-of-three, writer and President/Founder of GoPhilanthropic. In 2000 Lydia left her job as an Executive Search Consultant to pursue a lifelong interest in travel and humanitarian programs. She and her family moved to Provence, France where they lived for 6 years while exploring many developing countries. In 2007 they returned to the US and launched GoPhilanthropic Travel. In 2010 GoPhilanthropic Foundation was formed in order to more actively partner with small grassroots non-profits around the world. Lydia splits her time between their home base in Los Angeles, Provence, and the regions within which GoPhil works.
Email: [email protected]
by Lydia Dean
Now on Amazon...A beautiful mixture of travel memoir, soul-searching, adventure and making a difference, Jumping the Picket Fence - A Woman’s Search for Meaning from the Suburbs to the Slums is Founder Lydia Dean's inspiring journey to GoPhilanthropic-- an awakening from a lost and under-confident working mother to an ambassador for impoverished communities.
Join her on a fearless, inspirational path around the world—through the ups and downs of volunteering at an orphanage in India, exploring the back roads of Southeast Asia, adopting a child from China, trekking with indigenous peoples of Venezuela, and ultimately launching GoPhilanthropic. From magical and entertaining to painfully raw and unsettling, her experiences reveal the profound value in listening to our inner voices.
Now on Amazon...A beautiful mixture of travel memoir, soul-searching, adventure and making a difference, Jumping the Picket Fence - A Woman’s Search for Meaning from the Suburbs to the Slums is Founder Lydia Dean's inspiring journey to GoPhilanthropic-- an awakening from a lost and under-confident working mother to an ambassador for impoverished communities.
Join her on a fearless, inspirational path around the world—through the ups and downs of volunteering at an orphanage in India, exploring the back roads of Southeast Asia, adopting a child from China, trekking with indigenous peoples of Venezuela, and ultimately launching GoPhilanthropic. From magical and entertaining to painfully raw and unsettling, her experiences reveal the profound value in listening to our inner voices.
Tracey Morrell
Strategy, Development and Operations
Tracey brings 12 years experience in marketing, program & project management for multinational corporations in both European and US markets. She has taken her broad-based business experience and is now applying it in the non-profit sector, specifically in assisting grassroots non-profits become more sustainable and mission-driven. Tracey wears many hats at GoPhilanthropic from strategy and accounting, to organizational development and operations. She is a seasoned global backpacker, mother-of-three (yes...we are busy women at GoPhil) and extremely active in her community. Her connection to GoPhilanthropic began through GoPhilanthropic Travel when researching a way for her family to spend an extended time is S.E. Asia while connecting and supporting local non-profits.
Email: [email protected]
Tracey brings 12 years experience in marketing, program & project management for multinational corporations in both European and US markets. She has taken her broad-based business experience and is now applying it in the non-profit sector, specifically in assisting grassroots non-profits become more sustainable and mission-driven. Tracey wears many hats at GoPhilanthropic from strategy and accounting, to organizational development and operations. She is a seasoned global backpacker, mother-of-three (yes...we are busy women at GoPhil) and extremely active in her community. Her connection to GoPhilanthropic began through GoPhilanthropic Travel when researching a way for her family to spend an extended time is S.E. Asia while connecting and supporting local non-profits.
Email: [email protected]
Linda De Wolf
Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation
Linda brings extensive experience in the areas of philanthropy as well as community capacity building, health improvement and assessment efforts, innovation and customer service. She was president of a national not-for-profit health foundation funding innovation and has worked in various settings , acting as a connector, catalyst and collaborator. She brings these important experiences and skills to the GoPhilanthropic team. Linda has a passion for global travel and has traveled several times to every continent except Antarctica. She is especially interested in supporting women and children’s issues as well ensuring the viability of local artisans within their communities. She is, herself, an artist living in Santa Fe and has two grown sons and 6 grandchildren.
Email: [email protected]
Linda brings extensive experience in the areas of philanthropy as well as community capacity building, health improvement and assessment efforts, innovation and customer service. She was president of a national not-for-profit health foundation funding innovation and has worked in various settings , acting as a connector, catalyst and collaborator. She brings these important experiences and skills to the GoPhilanthropic team. Linda has a passion for global travel and has traveled several times to every continent except Antarctica. She is especially interested in supporting women and children’s issues as well ensuring the viability of local artisans within their communities. She is, herself, an artist living in Santa Fe and has two grown sons and 6 grandchildren.
Email: [email protected]