DSO STAFF

RACHEL L. POHL
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DONOR SERVICES OFFICE

DIRECT DIAL: 617-557-9776
E-MAIL: rpohl@hembar.com

Rachel L. Pohl graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 and from Columbia University with a Masters in Public Administration. She brings over 13 years experience in philanthropy to the Donor Services Office at Hemenway & Barnes. As Associate Director of the Donor Services Office, Ms. Pohl provides strategic planning, technical assistance, and program grant review and evaluation support to clients interested in charitable investment services. She also serves as the senior program officer for health and environmental grantmaking for the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, a New England-focused philanthropy.

Ms. Pohl's experience prior to her current tenure at Hemenway & Barnes includes four years as an administrator at Grants Management Associates where she provided program support for the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust. From 1991 until 1992, she consulted with the Collaboration of Community Foundations for the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem, a U.S./Canadian philanthropy partnership. From 1987 until 1991, she managed the national grantmaking program of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation with an emphasis on environment, health and community development priorities. These activities also included U.S.-Mexico border issues as well as international priorities including trade and global environmental concerns and reproductive rights. From the mid-70's until 1987, Ms. Pohl worked in the nonprofit and private sectors managing community development and energy-related programming and in environmental consulting to public sector agencies.

Ms. Pohl is active in philanthropic networks, including Associated Grant Makers, Council on Foundations, Grantmakers In Health, Environmental Grantmakers Association, Maternal/Child Health Public Private Partnership Initiative, the Health and Environmental Funders Network as well as New England state-based funders networks. She is a member of the American Public Health Association and Amnesty International. Ms. Pohl also was the recipient of a Ford Foundation internship in Peru.