March Breakfast Panel:

How Donors Think - Live!

Panelists & Moderators

Linda S. Aitch

Linda S. Aitch is an experienced philanthropic and nonprofit professional with over 30 years in the field. She has worked with the United Way of Greater Saint Louis, Greater St. Louis Community Foundation, and the Nonprofit Services Center. Linda currently works with the St. Louis Philanthropic Organization, which provides funding and capacity building support to nonprofits whose programs improve the quality of life for St. Louis City residents. She has also served as a consultant for local and national funders as an external reviewer, and assisted in the development of grantmaking initiatives and strategies to address community needs. She has provided training and consulting for local nonprofits in such areas as governance, effective nonprofits and strategic planning.  Linda received her Masters of Science in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, Illinois, and her Bachelor’s in Psychology from Washington University – St. Louis, Missouri. She has served as a certified facilitator of the Core Capacity Assessment Tool (CCAT) with the TCC Group.  Further, she is a graduate of the United Way of America Minority Leadership Development Program and Coro Midwestern Center’s Women in Leadership Program. Linda has also served as a member of a number of nonprofits boards and advisory boards.

Deb Dubin

Deborah Dubin is CEO & President of the Gateway Center for Giving (GCG), a regional philanthropic membership organization that encourages strategic and impactful charitable giving.

Deb possesses more than two decades of experience in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, having worked as an attorney, business executive, university educator and board member. Prior to assuming leadership at GCG in 2013, she served as a Vice President at a venture capital firm focused on investing in underserved communities across the country. For seven years, she served as an adjunct instructor at Washington University in St. Louis, teaching a University College course on the nexus between business and public policy.  Prior to settling in St. Louis, she worked for more than a dozen years in San Francisco as an attorney, senior political aide and community outreach liaison.  Deb earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her law degree from U.C. Berkeley. 

Actively engaged in civic life, she is an alumna of the Coro Women in Leadership program and has served as a gubernatorial appointee to a statewide commission focused on economic development. She currently serves on the boards of several organizations that are committed to fostering community impact.

Natalie Jablonski

Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest youth mentoring organization and has served children and families for more than 100 years.  The services provided are essential in meeting the needs of our community’s youth by matching positive, caring role models to mentor and guide them through the challenges they face in today’s society. 

Natalie Jablonski, President & CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois, has an abundance of knowledge in non-profit leadership, having more than 15 years of nonprofit management experience in various leadership and executive positions with focus on the areas of social services, senior and youth program, and healthcare.  Natalie joined Big Brothers Big Sisters in 2016 and is also currently the co-host of 501Crossroads, a weekly podcast focused on non-profits (available on iTunes). 

Natalie received her Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Communication from McKendree University and her Master’s Degree in Management from Webster University.  She resides in Swansea, Illinois with her husband, Roderick and two children Courtney (20) and Zachary (16).

Natalie is a 5-time award winning speaker and member of Toastmasters International.  In her free time she enjoys golf, watching sports, reading and playing games/puzzles.

Marjorie Moore

Marjorie Moore is the President and CEO of MindsEye Radio, the St. Louis area nonprofit that provides free readings from periodicals and description of cultural events to people who are blind or visually impaired. Her career has been focused on ensuring that all people receive equal access to information through her work at MindsEye, in various roles in the Illinois Radio Information Services, and as president of the International Association of Audio Information Services. 

Marjorie holds a degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communications from Marquette University and is an alumnus of NSC’s Women’s Executive Director Leadership Seminar and Focus St. Louis’s Leadership St. Louis.  She is the producer and co-host of 501Crossroads, a podcast for nonprofit practitioners.  

Ann L. Vazquez

Ann Vazquez moved to St. Louis in 1985 after graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in business/finance.  She spent the next 21 years in commercial lending, the last 17 of which were with US Bank.  She spent the first 11 years specializing in providing banking services to not-for profits and healthcare companies in St. Louis.

The last 6 years she was the Senior Vice President and manger of the Broker Dealer and Mutual Fund Group. In September 2006 she left the banking world and was hired as the President and CEO of Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis. 

Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis make grants to health and human care organizations and congregations in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

 Lutheran Foundation currently has 6 funding focus areas:  Congregation Social Service Outreach Ministry, Christian Volunteerism, Lutheran Education, Older Adults Maintaining Independence, Service to Ex-Offenders and Their Families and Supporting Foreign-Born Populations. Ann’s non-profit board service has included: Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition, YWCA of Greater St. Louis, Junior Achievement of Mississippi Valley, The Visiting Nurse Association of Greater St. Louis and Gateway Center for Giving.  She is currently on the board of Lutheran Services of America. For-profit board service includes: Board member of Stifel Bank.