Annie (she/her) leads NFF’s national strategy for engagement and advocacy with nonprofits towards NFF’s mission of equitable flow of resources. Annie joined NFF in 2015 where she helped build the financial management capacity of the social sector. Before joining NFF, she was a Sr. Program Officer at First 5 LA and a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting. She started her career as a CA State Assembly Fellow and Legislative Consultant with the Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee. Annie received her Bachelor of Arts in political science from UCLA, and her Master of Public Policy from USC. She serves on the Independent Sector Public Policy Committee, California Coalition for Community Investment Policy Committee, and is a lecturer at CSULA’s MPA program. Annie is inspired daily by being raised by an immigrant single mother in southeast LA and by her three children to make their future world brighter and more just.
Authored or contributed by Annie
Projects & Reports
May 20, 2025
The Economic Contributions of California Black-led Organizations
Strengthening California’s Economy & Communities Survey
Projects & Reports
February 25, 2025
Uncovering the Full Cost of LA Youth Workforce Development Programs
An analysis of unfunded expenses from the providers' experience
Blog
August 7, 2024
How to Ensure Up-Front Payments to Homeless Services Providers Work
Recently, LA County’s Board of Supervisors took quick and significant action toward paying homeless services providers up-front This is...
Commentary
March 9, 2023
5 Ways Foundations Should Help Grantees in an Uncertain Economy
Originally published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy Many of our nonprofit clients and partners are looking to 2023 with trepidation While COVID...
Blog
March 1, 2022
Our Strategic Innovation Fund: How Unrestricted Funding Opened Up New Ways of Working with Community-Centered Nonprofits
In 2020, MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation provided substantial unrestricted grants to NFF – grants that seeded our Strategic Innovation...
Projects & Reports
October 9, 2019
Los Angeles Early Care and Education Provider Financial Analysis
Policy and systems change solutions that can enhance the fiscal strength of the early care and education sector
Blog
June 19, 2018
The Hidden Costs of Advocating for Social Change
Creating social change requires that organizations adapt and remain responsive to ever-shifting political winds For advocacy organizations that seek...