Lita Ugarte Pardi, Senior Program Officer
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LITA UGARTE PARDI is a Senior Program Officer at The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. In this position, she reviews and evaluates grant applications for the Common Good Funds, the Foundation’s broadest discretionary grantmaking program, and manages the Foundation’s work around Nonprofit Effectiveness. She also works closely with Philanthropic Services staff to match donor interests to community needs and oversees the Champions for Children with Exceptional Needs Initiative, an effort that seeks to address the needs of medically fragile and special needs children and their families throughout the state of Georgia.
Prior to joining the Foundation in 2003, Lita worked at The Impact! Group, a housing agency in Gwinnett County, and at the Latin American Association, a social services nonprofit serving Atlanta’s Latino community. At both organizations Lita was a part of the development departments, primarily working on funding proposals and research. Lita’s experience at the Latin American Association includes two years running programs for Latino youth.
In addition to regularly contributing to the Foundation Center’s publications, Lita serves on the Georgia Council for the Arts Peer Review Panel and the Coca-Cola Two-Year Colleges Scholarship Program Committee. Lita is an alumna of LEAD Atlanta Class of 2007, a program of Leadership Atlanta, and was a Hull Fellow with the Southeastern Council of Foundations in 2004.
A native of Peru, Lita received her undergraduate degree from Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Lita lives in Marietta with her husband, Fred, and their dog, Baggio.