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https://www.arabellaadvisors.com/company/our-people/

Eric Kessler
Founder, Principal, and Senior Managing Director
Eric is a serial entrepreneur who has started, led, and advised organizations pursuing social change across the country and around the globe. As founder of Arabella Advisors, Eric has been at the forefront of innovation and impact in the philanthropic sector during one of its greatest historical expansions.

While guiding Arabella from a small startup to a company with more than 150 employees in four offices across the country, Eric has focused on helping clients achieve their philanthropic goals by devising strategies, mounting effective advocacy campaigns, evaluating impact, increasing operational efficiency, and designing and implementing impact investing portfolios. Now, with a CEO in place to run the business, Eric is focusing his energy on advising clients who are working to improve our food system through policies and business investments that promote nutritious, sustainable, and affordable food.

Eric’s interest in the food sector extends well beyond his work at Arabella. He chairs the committee at the James Beard Foundation that oversees efforts to engage the culinary community in advocacy on food policy, and he created the foundation’s Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change. Eric also co-founded the Chef Action Network and has a personal private equity portfolio invested in businesses at the forefront of improving our food system.

In addition to his work at Arabella, Eric founded and serves as chairman of the New Venture Fund, an innovative, independent 501(c)(3) organization that incubates new nonprofits and houses donor collaboratives. Also in the philanthropy sector, he co-founded the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, which aims to boost the effectiveness of the billions of dollars spent on disaster-related charity.

Earlier in his career, Eric served as the national field director for the League of Conservation Voters. Then, as a White House appointee, he helped manage conservation issues during the Clinton administration. Before that, Eric spent six years with the National Democratic Institute, which sent him to the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and throughout the Middle East to train civic and political leaders on strategies to encourage democratic change.

Eric is on the boards of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, the James Beard Foundation, and Chef Action Network. He is a member of the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the Young Presidents’ Organization, Summit Series, and the Bretton Woods Committee. He also serves as a trustee of his own family’s foundation, which holds assets generated by the sale of a fifth-generation family-owned business.

Eric holds an Executive MBA from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.



http://disasterphilanthropy.org

The following organizations share our passion for effective, informed, and responsive disaster giving. Their generous gifts of $5,000 and more support our efforts to help communities recover more quickly.
The Ahmanson Foundation
Rita Allen Foundation
The Azby Fund
Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation
S.H. Cowell Foundation
Danaher Corporation
The Christel Dehaan Family Foundation
Eileen Fisher Inc.
Family Alliance Foundation
FJC
The Celia Lipton Farris & Victor W. Farris Foundation, Inc.
Google.org
Hartford Foundation
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
MKM Foundation
NCR Foundation
New Venture Fund
Oklahoma City Community Foundation
Park Foundation
The Patterson Foundation
Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation  (Read a feature spotlight here)
PSE&G
Reilly Family Foundation at Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Revolutions Per Minute
The Rockefeller Foundation
Schroeher Clare Family Fund
Communities Foundation of Texas–Richard Sims Fund
Stone Soup Fund
Thomas Strikwerda and Donna Stienstra Fund
Sygyzy Foundation
The UPS Foundation
The Vermont Community Foundation
To learn more about giving opportunities, please contact President and CEO Bob Ottenhoff at bob.ottenhoff@disasterphilanthropy.org.





https://twitter.com/eric_kessler

Center for Disaster Philanthropy
(founded by eric kessler)


	CDP program	experts	allocated
more	than	$1.2	million	across	a	range	of
needs,	effectively	directing	resources	to	help
communities	rebuild	better.
2
In	2016,	we	strategically leveraged	disaster
funds	to	assist	thousands	around	the	globe,
including	in	part:	nearly	10,000	individuals
throughout	the	U.S.	Midwest;	more	than
100,000	refugees	in	Syria	and	Greece;	3,500
people	affected	by	the	Nice	terror	attack;
1,500	women,	children,	and	men	in	Haiyan;
and	1,500	students	in	Nepal.


CDP 2016 income $4,398,416
http://disasterplaybook.org
Leadership Support provided by the Rita Allen Foundation
Additional support provided by Johnson & Johnson Foundation,
UPS Foundation, PSEG Foundation, Oklahoma City Community Foundation
and the Vermont Community Foundation

CDP head(?) https://twitter.com/bobottenhoff
climate fear mongering, anti trump





http://freebeacon.com/issues/over-100-left-wing-groups-sourced-to-d-c-dark-money-outfit/

arabella enviornmental advocacy fraud
https://350.org/press-release/41173/

https://thinkprogress.org/the-divestment-movement-has-grown-50-fold-in-just-one-year-841f104b9cdf
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/09/leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change-divestment/



https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org


http://watchdog.org/246855/new-venture-fund/

https://www.jamesbeard.org/financials



Eric Kessler President and COO of HBO, employee of Time Warner as well
http://deadline.com/2013/10/hbos-eric-kessler-departs-after-27-years-603349/
Eric was an early champion of our digital future – he was central in establishing our relationship with iTunes (Apple), driving the exploration of mobile experiences, and ultimately leading the development and worldwide launch of HBO GO. HBO GO is an essential innovation for HBO and without Eric and his team, it would not have emerged as what is widely regarded as television’s most elegant digital product.



http://time.com/79569/comcast-has-about-76-lobbyists-working-washington-on-cable-merger-this-is-why/
Comcast Lobbyists With Ties to Key Congressional Committees
Krista Stark, Legislative Director for former House Judiciary Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner
Pete Filon, former House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell’s general counsel

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Eric Kessler, Dingell’s chief of staff
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Jeff Mortier, staff member under House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton
Karina Lynch, investigative counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley
Alec French, former Democratic Counsel on the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
Kevin Joseph, former senior counsel to the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications
Paul Bock, chief of staff for former Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl, onetime chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee
Seth Bloom, general counsel of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee under Sen. Kohl
Manus Cooney, chief counsel and staff director on the Senate Judiciary Committee under former chairman Orrin Hatch, who still serves on the committee

Comcast Lobbyists With Ties to Minority Communities
Ingrid Duran, former president and CEO of Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Catherine Pino, National Council of La Raza board member
Raul Tapia, President Carter's Deputy Assistant for Hispanic Affairs
Earle Jones, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s corporate advisory board member
Jennifer Stewart, Congressional Black Caucus Institute board member

Comcast Lobbyists With Ties to Current Former Top Politicians
Daniel Meyer, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s chief of staff
David Hobbs, former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey’s chief of staff and President George W. Bush's congressional liaison
Joe Trahern and Melissa Maxfield, staffers to former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle
Daniel Tate, President Clinton's special assistant for legislative affairs
Carlyle Thorsen, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay’s general counsel
Susan Hirschmann, former House Majority Whip Tom Delay's chief of staff
Sam Lancaster, staffer to former Speaker Dennis Hastert
Chris Israel, Deputy Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretaries Donald L. Evans and Carlos Gutierrez in George W. Bush Adminstration
Marc Lampkin, Speaker Boehner’s general counsel
Shimon A. Stein, senior policy advisor to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
Stephen Pinkos, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy’s policy director and general counsel
Michael Eisenberg, whip coordinator for House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer


Eric Kessler religion
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/us/30religion.html

http://seder.today/about/
links to http://builtbycivilization.com (sigils?)