Director of Advancement, Programs & Administration

Jenise Steverding

jsteverding@godaid.org

Jenise is the Director of Advancement, Programs & Administration. She joined Giving Children Hope in March 2007. As a member of the management team, she recommends appropriate policies, procedures and strategies for the marketing, programmatic, donor engagement and administrative aspects of the organization.

Jenise is a native of Orange County, CA and earned her B.A. in Sociology and Social Science from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. She has 10+ years management experience in the private sector, institutes of higher education, community based non-profits, and governmental projects. She obtained her Master’s in Public Management through SDA Bocconi University, an internationally ranked business school located in Milan, Italy. Prior to her employment at Giving Children Hope, she was working for the South African government on an urban redevelopment initiative of a township, Alexandra, located in Johannesburg. She is a board member of Old Skool Cafe in San Francisco, a social-enterprise restaurant vocationally training at-risk youth, and of the African Academy for Christian Leadership.