Grand Victoria Foundation
Neeta Boddapati serves as the VP of Finance and Administration at Grand Victoria Foundation, a role held since August 2016, where responsibilities include overseeing finance and administration functions, with a focus on budgeting and asset management to support the foundation's philanthropic mission in advancing racial equity and justice in Illinois. Prior to this, Neeta worked as a Senior Program Officer at the same foundation, designing grantmaking programs for low-income workers. Additional experience includes serving as an Investment Associate at Charter School Growth Fund, where support was provided to charter school leaders, and as the Director of Strategy at the Recovery School District, where Neeta focused on financial innovation for special education leaders. Earlier experience at General Mills involved managing marketing strategies to introduce products to new demographics. Neeta Boddapati holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Grand Victoria Foundation
Grand Victoria Foundation was established in 1996 by the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin. Its mission is to empower communities to ensure Illinois is a great place to live and work. We envision a strong, livable, and equitable Illinois where every resident has an opportunity to thrive. Our grantmaking encourages systems change. We define this as work that improves conditions that hold social and economic problems in place. Our work celebrates the role of nonprofits in pursuing ideas and solutions with communities to improve the quality of life in Illinois. Our grantmaking is organized into five program areas – Economy, Education, Elgin, Engagement, and Environment. We partner with organizations working to achieve equitable outcomes that reduce disparities. Results that partners might realize are: -Improved policies or practices -Increased access to resources for people and communities of most need -Relationships that include viewpoints of people with diverse perspectives -Sharing and shifting of power to promote and achieve equity -Improved capacity and effectiveness to carry out systems change