Alicia Philipp

ALICIA PHILIPP is president of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc., one of the largest and fastest growing philanthropic service organizations in the country. Under her leadership, The Community Foundation has grown from $7 million in assets in 1977 to nearly $600 million today and facilitates more planned gifts than any other locally based nonprofit organization in the Southeast. 

Named in 2008 as one of the “100 Most Influential Atlantans” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and winner of the 2008 Leadership Character Award for nonprofits by the Turknett Leadership Group, Philipp has led the Foundation’s grantmaking, fundraising and collaboration with donors, nonprofits and community leaders for the past 31 years. In 2008 The Community Foundation provided more than 4,000 grants totaling an estimated $90 million to nonprofits in the areas of arts and culture, community development, civic affairs, education, health, religion and human services.
 
Philipp is known as one of the industry’s leading contemporary voices on progressive community foundations and has driven The Community Foundation to become one of the top 20 community foundations in market value and top 10 in giving among the nation’s top 100. She has challenged the Foundation to think differently about the best ways to serve the larger community with a strategic focus on donor engagement and has watched donor-advised funds grow exponentially in recent years. The Community Foundation has served as an incubator for successful initiatives such as the Georgia Center for Nonprofits and the Atlanta Women’s Foundation and has also created other key initiatives including the Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund, the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, the Metropolitan Atlanta Youth Opportunities Initiative and the Neighborhood Fund. 
  
Philipp is a member of the advisory committee of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and is also on the search committee for the Dean of Andrew Young School. National and regional leadership responsibilities include previous service as a board member of the Council on Foundations, the Southeastern Council of Foundations and Independent Sector. Additionally, she serves as a board member of Central Atlanta Progress and is a member of the Junior League, the International Women’s Forum and the Academy of Women Achievers. Philipp also serves in leadership capacities with the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia, on the board of National Center of Family Philanthropy and on the committee of Family Foundations for the Council on Foundations.
 
Philipp has been recognized as an “Achiever” by the YMCA and received the “Roz Cohen Community Action Award” and the “Emory Medal,”Emory University’s highest honor for alumni. She has also been honored as one of the “Outstanding Young People of Atlanta,” and as one of the “Top Ten Women Managers” in the United States by Working Woman magazine. 
 
Philipp received a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a master’s in business administration from Georgia State University.