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Trabian Shorters joined Knight Foundation in December 2007. He is responsible for the foundation's work in 26 communities across the United States. Over his professional career, Trabian's commitment to social innovation has made him a leader in the fields of National Service, Nonprofit Technology, and Social Entrepreneurship as they emerged in the United States. He was also one of 32 founders of the National African American Males Collaboration in the mid-90s.
In social entrepreneurship, he was co-director of Ashoka-US where he raised $16M, and found 17 Fellows including Charles Best of DonorsChoose.org upon whose board he now serves.
In National Service, he raised the funds and convened the group that wrote the AmeriCorps National Service proposal to the incoming Clinton administration in 1992. AmeriCorps has since graduated over half a million corps members. He also served as a Youth Service Ambassador for the Points of Light Foundation under the Bush administration in 1991.
In the field of Nonprofit Technology, he led AOL Time Warner, the Meyer Foundation, Fannie Mae and Microsoft to provide start-up funding and join the board for his enterprise, Technology Works for Good (now NPowerDC) in 1999. TWFG became DC's leading nonprofit provider of technology support and training by 2001.
Today at the Knight Foundation, in addition to the foundation's work in 26 communities, Trabian gets to lead the Knight Community Information Challenge (KCIC). This is a five year initiative to help local foundations support projects which provide local news and information to their neighborhoods, towns, counties and regions.
He still serves as an "International reviewer" for Ashoka and is a coach to NYU's Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program for Social Entrepreneurship. Originally from Pontiac Michigan, he earned a journalism degree from Michigan State University, is a Cranbrook Alum and the proud first grandchild of Kennis and Irma Lee Hutchons.
Phone: (305) 908-2600
Contact Trabian
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