Elizabeth Campbell

Betsy Campbell is vice president for programs at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, providing leadership to the Fund's program and grantmaking activities.  She also works closely with the program, grants management, and communications staff to help further the overall RBF goals and activities across program areas.

Before assuming her current position at the Fund in June 2007, Ms. Campbell spent over 20 years working with donor and nongovernmental organizations. Most recently, Ms. Campbell lived and worked in La Paz, Bolivia where she built a consulting practice serving nonprofit and philanthropic clients on challenges of project management, organizational effectiveness, program research, and evaluation.  Prior to her work in Bolivia, Ms. Campbell served as senior director/deputy to the vice president of the Asset Building and Community Development Program at the Ford Foundation where she worked with the vice president to oversee all aspects of program development and management for its worldwide grants program.  She began her career at the Ford Foundation in 1991 as a program officer in the Rural Poverty and Resources program and later served as director for Community and Resource Development. She has also worked for Save the Children.  Ms. Campbell serves on the boards of the Center for Rural Strategies and Winrock International.  Ms. Campbell holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Services from Georgetown University.