Jane B. O'Connell
President
Altman Foundation

Ms. O'Connell began her professional career teaching English in a New York City public high school and was Assistant Head for non academic affairs at an independent girls' school from 1976 to 1998, responsible for development, long range planning and finance. She now consults for schools and small non-profit organizations in the areas of fund raising, strategic planning and board development. She was a board member of Governance Matters, (now merged with Volunteer Consulting Group) an organization that supports non profit organizations efforts to improve their leadership and governance and was elected to the VCG board in June 2009. She is a director of the Lavelle Fund for the Blind and a trustee of the Endowment for Inner-City Education and chairs its disbursement committee. She is board member of Early Steps, a program that assists minority families in admission to independent schools and is a member of the national board of Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families (GCYF) and chairs the human resource committee. She is a trustee and treasurer of the Museum of the City of New York and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Fundraising Management Program a division of the Continuing Education Program at Columbia University. She just completed six years on the board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, New York Chapter. She was a trustee of City Harvest for 12 years and chaired its human resources committee. Ms O'Connell is a graduate of Manhattanville College and received her M.A. in Secondary Education from New York University (Steinhardt) School of Education.