LUCY BERNHOLZ
Blueprint, R&D
247 Fourth St., Suite 105
Oakland, CA 94607
(415) 255-9700
lucyb@blueprintrd.com

Personal Bio/Other Information:
Lucy Bernholz is the President of Blueprint R & D, a private consulting firm that advises California foundations and corporations on their grantmaking strategies. She is also the founder of the California Community Philanthropy Research Project and a collaborator with the Nonprofit Studies Program at University of California. She has written numerous articles on California philanthropy, is spearheading a new research project on philanthropy in the American West and works as a consultant to help apply the findings of that research. She has worked as a program officer at private and community foundations. Bernholz holds a B.A. in history from Yale University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her dissertation, "Private Philanthropy and Public Schools: San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s" is one of the few historic analyses of foundation philanthropy in California.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "The Future of Philanthropic History: Suggestions for Research and Practice," a presentation at the Philanthropy in History Conference, sponsored by New York University's Center for the Study of American Culture and Education and Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, Indianapolis, IN, September 25 and 26, 1997
• "The record of foundations and important social issues -- public schools," panel presentation, The Aspen Institute and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pocantico, NY, October 28-30, 1996
• "Kids, Classrooms and Policy: San Francisco Schools and Foundations," presentation at the San Francisco Foundation, hosted by the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, October 16, 1996

Publications:

• "The Future of Philanthropic History: Suggestions for Research and Practice," in Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (ed.), Philanthropic Foundations, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999.
• "Full-service foundations," Foundation News and Commentary, The Foundation Center, March/April, 1998, pp. 20-22
• "Private Philanthropy and Public Schools: San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s," Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, 1995

Lucy Bernholz has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 15-Nov-1999.