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Published: 30 April 2024
Written by: Sufina Ahmad, Director
John Ellerman Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Alice Thornton as our Head of Research and Impact. Alice will join us on 13 May 2024.
As Head of Research and Impact she will work closely with our Director, Sufina Ahmad, Trustees and the wider team to drive forward the delivery of our strategy for 2022-25, including through our publicly available Impact Framework and Investment Policy, as well as supporting with the development of future strategies. This role is a vital way in which we can fulfil the ambitions of our strategy, which is to use 100% of our assets, namely our grantmaking, investing and wider operations, in pursuit of our aim to advance wellbeing for people, society and the natural world.
Alice is joining us from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, where she has been Evaluation and Learning Lead for three funding programmes at Impact on Urban Health since July 2021. Prior to this role, Alice worked as a consultant at the social enterprise Renaisi, specialising in supporting philanthropic funders to learn and understand the impact of their grantmaking. In her time in this role, Alice led multi-year evaluation and learning partnerships for a range of funders including City Bridge Foundation, Power to Change Trust, the National Lottery Community Fund, and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Alice is also a volunteer grants coordinator for the LGBTQ Funding Circle, and is Chair of Trustees at Stepney City Farm.
Alice is very excited about the role and the prospect of joining the Foundation and we are all very much looking forward to working with her.