Laura Risimini
Laura Risimini serves as Senior Director of Grantmaking & Strategy at Amplify Her Foundation, where she leads the Foundation's grantmaking strategy and cultivates cross-sector partnerships that advance gender and racial justice across New York City. Prior to joining Amplify Her Foundation, she served as Managing Director of the Purpose Foundation, a start-up organization acting as a fiscal sponsor for social impact campaigns and organizations. Before that, she was Foundation Manager of the HLH Family Foundation, formerly The Sister Fund, where she guided the organization through its transition from a women's fund to a family foundation.
Throughout her career, Laura has had the distinctive opportunity to support organizations across all stages of their lifecycle — from start-up to sunset. She specializes in building nonprofit operating and programmatic structures and designing and implementing grant cycles aligned with feminist and trust-based funding principles. She is also the co-author of The Uprising of Women in Philanthropy, a work that explores the transformative impact of the global women's funding movement.
Laura holds a BA in International Studies and an MA in Political Science from Fordham University. She is deeply committed to advancing the leadership and power of women and girls.
