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From the offices of the Microsoft
Alumni Foundation, we sincerely hope that everyone is enjoying a wonderful start
to their summer. And if it's summer, it must be time for . . . Integral
Fellows! It is with great pride that we
announce our 2012 Integral Fellows Award nominees. Please continue to read on for
comments from Sharon Maghie and Steve Wells, our Integral Fellows Committee
co-chairs, and then check out this year's nominees. We hope you'll agree that
when it comes to "doing philanthropy", our alumni have got it going on. If you haven't already, mark
October 1 on your calendar for Celebration 2012. The
location and exciting guest speakers will be announced soon. You won't want to
miss it! Don't forget to visit our website often for
the latest information, stories, and events about MSAF, members, alumni, and
their nonprofit organizations. You'll be hearing more from us
throughout the summer, but for now, please read about the incredible work being
done by our fellow alumni who compose this year's list of Integral Fellows
nominees. 
Marylou Brannan,
Executive
Director |  Message from 2012
Integral Fellows Co-Chairs
| |   It seems like only yesterday over 500 of us were all gathered in
the beautiful Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters, celebrating the
2011 Integral Fellows
Awards. If you click here you can relive some of
the events and recognition from that inspirational evening. But in actuality it
has been over 6 months and it is now time to focus on our next crop of
nominees.
As the Microsoft Alumni
Foundation launches the Integral Fellows Awards Program for 2012, we celebrate
our fourth year of recognizing the amazing philanthropic
achievements of our alumni. Spanning conservation,
climate, kids, technology, and even elfdom, the 2012 nominees take on
philanthropic endeavors that cover many different areas. But what they all have
in common is the ability to drive us all to do more based on what they are
accomplishing. In our role as Co-Chairs,
we are honored to help recognize and support the inspiring efforts of all of our
fellow alumni who, through their dedication, passion, and creativity, so greatly
improve the world around us. Our committee of volunteers, with the help of our
esteemed panel of external judges, give you our commitment to review and
evaluate all of our nominees, with the same level of thoughtfulness and
integrity with which they inspire us. We look forward to another
great year.  
Sharon Maghie & Steve
Wells Intergral Fellows
Committee Co-Chairs | 2012 Integral
Fellows Nominees | - Paul Bannick, Development
Director, Conservation Northwest
- Jabe Blumenthal, Co-chair,
Board of Directors, Climate Solutions
- Ivette deRubens, Member
Relations Manager, Catalyst Kitchens
- Brian Donaldson, Interim
President and CEO, Boys & Girls Club of King County
- Paul Gross, Chair, Hydrocephalus Association at
Seattle Children's Hospital
- David Habib, Partner, Social Venture Partners
- Bill Henningsgaard,
Executive Director and Chair, Eastside Pathways
- Mahnaz Javid, Co-founder and President, Mona
Foundation
- Andrew Lamb, Senior Project Manager, New
Leaders
- Adnan Mahmud, Co-founder and
Director of Technology, Jolkona
- Sheetal Mehta-Walsh, Founder, Shanti
Microfinance
- Gisli Olafsson, Nethope
- Steve Paul, President and CEO, Northwest North
Pole Adventures
- Bob Powell, Member, Board of
Directors, BURN Design Lab
- Allen Wilcox, President,
VillageReach
| Paul
Bannick | | 
Development
Director Conservation
Northwest Paul combines his passion
for wildlife and nature photography with his analytical and communication
skills. He has been instrumental in raising more than $20 million in private
funds and grants and has spearheaded successful coalitions and partnerships to
purchase private lands to preserve critical habitats. Read more. .
. | Jabe
Blumenthal | | 
Co-chair, Board of
Directors Climate
Solutions Jabe's strategic
leadership, laser focus, and practical approach to advocacy have transformed a
regional organization into a national thought leader with vibrant partnerships
and alliances in the business, farm, government, and civic sectors. Read
more. | Ivette
deRubens | | 
Member Relations
Manager Catalyst
Kitchens Ivette is creating the
communications and engagement infrastructure necessary to reach scale, as well
as the social media strategy necessary to establish key partnerships with
corporate sponsors. Read
more. | Brian
Donaldson | | 
Interim President and
CEO Boys & Girls Club of
King County The Boys & Girls Clubs
of King County faced challenging times when Brian stepped in as Interim
President and CEO. He quickly determined a strategy for financial stability,
rallied the staff, expanded the Board of Directors, and held people accountable
for positive change. Read
more. | Paul
Gross | | 
Chairman Hydrocephalus
Association Paul's son William had 5
brain surgeries before he was 5 years old due to hydrocephalus, a congenital
condition that affects more than a 1 million people in the U.S. As a volunteer,
Paul has personally raised all the major gifts and donations for the
organization ($1 million annually). Read more. | David
Habib | | 
Partner Social Venture Partners
(SVP) David has spent more than
12,000 hours volunteering his time and expertise with more than 25 nonprofits
at SVP. He has revolutionized mission-critical database apps for the nonprofit
sector allowing them to connect with donors, advocate for their causes, and
expand their impact. Read
more. | Bill
Henningsgaard | | 
Executive Director and
Chair of the Board Eastside
Pathways Bill and his wife Susan founded the organization based on the Collective
Impact Framework. He has been instrumental in getting the city, school district,
and leaders from 30 organizations to unite around common goals and to leverage
their shared resources to support every child from "cradle to career." Read
more. | Mahnaz
Javid | | 
Co-founder and Board
President Mona
Foundation How do you grow an
organization supporting just 300 children to one serving more than 40,000 women
and children in 12 countries around the world? Mahnaz has done that by creating
long-lasting partnerships to develop support programs in education from schools
in Haiti, to business institutes for rural women in India and Mongolia, to the
Sunflower Mission in Vietnam. Read
more. | Andrew
Lamb | | 
Senior Project
Manager New Leaders After overcoming his own
personal learning disabilities, Andrew has helped solve business challenges
through the innovative use of technology and significantly improved fund-raising
and planning for the organization. In addition, he has improved the program's
efficacy by building information systems to capture and report data to drive
accountability and implemented cloud technologies to enhance collaboration. Read
more. | Adnan
Mahmud | | 
Co-founder and Director
of Technology Jolkona Adnan recognized that young
people would be more engaged in giving if there was 100% transparency and
direct, personal proof of the impact of their gift. He has leveraged technology
and the organization's web-based platform to: empower young adults to be more
inspired to give, connect charitable organizations to a broader donor base, and
help those in need benefit from a larger, more involved donor pool. Read
more. | Sheetal
Mehta-Walsh | | 
Founder Shanti
Microfinance Sheetal started with the
premise that a small microfinance loan (many just $160) could mean financial
independence in communities where the poor have no assets to qualify for
traditional loans. With a grass roots effort in Gujarat, India, the organization
has provided funding to: rickshaw wallahs for down-payments on their vehicles;
artisans in rural and urban communities who design and develop their textiles
for sale; and women farmers for eco-sanitation facilities and healthier working
conditions. Read more. | Gisli
Olafsson | | 
Global Program Director
for Emergency Response NetHope Recognized as one of the premier disaster response coordinators in the
world and the key contact for the U.S. Department of State in their emergency
response operations, Gisli has lead NetHope's efforts in Southeast Asia
(tsunami), Haiti (earthquake), Pakistan (floods), and Japan (earthquake, tsunami
and nuclear incident). Read
more. | Steve
Paul | | 
President and
CEO Northwest North Pole
Adventures Steve recognized that
children who are homeless, living in shelters, or at-risk living in poverty also
deserve a special day free from the harsh realities of their daily lives. As the
organization's "Chief Elf," Steve personally built this idea from a small
program at the local YMCA to an independent regional organization where he
manages more than 650 volunteers, local social agencies, partners and donors.
Read
more. | Robert
Powell | | 
Member, Board of
Directors BURN Design
Lab As a generous and
enthusiastic pioneer in developing designs and manufacturing processes for clean
burning cook stoves (he co-founded the Lab), Bob drives the design process,
testing, and manufacturing processes. Under his direction, the Lab is mounting
the only large-scale effort to build and manage localized industrial stove
facilities. Read
more. | Allen
Wilcox | | 
President VillageReach Allen is credited with
taking an organization with a strong vision and implementing a strategic plan
that has elevated VillageReach into a model to emulate. From Nelson Mandela (an
honorary Board Member) to strategic partners such as PATH and World Bank, to
supporters that include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Allen has
concentrated on forging partnerships and relationships that strengthen the "last
mile" of the health system. Read
more. | | |