Grantmakers in the Arts
Glenisse Pagán Ortiz is executive director of Filantropía Puerto Rico (Philanthropy Puerto Rico), a philanthropy-serving organization connecting philanthropic entities and amplifying their voice and impact in areas of equity, collaboration, transparency and social justice. As a convener of funders with grantmaking focus on Puerto Rico, they lead efforts to improve the lives of the marginalized.
Pagán was born, raised, and lives in Puerto Rico where she leads a multi-passionate life learning, teaching, challenging others, and being challenged. She also loves technology, nature, adventure, but above all, she lives to inspire people to take action and help them find their purpose.
Upon graduating from Electrical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus (UPRM), Pagán began working with Kodak and later with Motorola, who granted her a scholarship for a Master’s degree at Georgia Tech. For the next 17 years, Pagán worked at Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems. She began her career as a Systems Engineer and ended as a Business Developer Manager in charge of teams throughout Latin America.
In 2011 Pagán refocused her energy by offering personal and business consulting for clients in the construction, legal, retail, and philanthropy sectors. She is the co-founder of Harimau Conservation, a nonprofit focused on empowering communities through conservation and education programs in Indonesia and Puerto Rico. Harimau won the Innovation prize at Fundación Banco Popular’s hackathon for developing a tool that calculates the contribution made by natural resources to an economy.
Harimau’s made a significant contribution to Puerto Rican communities devastated by Hurricane María in 2017 through the installation of 41 water purification towers.
Pagán has been a consultant to NetHope, a humanitarian organization working with the community-based initiative of Information as Aid. In 2018, she began working as chief operating officer for Filantropía Puerto Rico (then called Foundation Network of Puerto Rico), and in 2019 she was named executive director.
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Grantmakers in the Arts
Grantmakers in the Arts is the only national association of both public and private arts and culture funders in the US, including independent and family foundations, public agencies, community foundations, corporate philanthropies, nonprofit regrantors, and national service organizations – funders of all shapes and sizes across the US and into Canada.