Annie Rhodes | Co-Founder & CEO, Wishes

Annie Rhodes has spent over 25 years in philanthropy helping organizations embrace data and tech to drive impact. Annie joined Wishes as Co-founder and CEO to help bring the Wishes transparency engine to all giving. Prior to Wishes, Annie was the Chief Strategy Officer at UpMetrics where she helped funders analyze their data and tell their story. Prior to Wishes Annie spent over 12 years at the cross-section of philanthropy and technology supporting the relationship between funders and their grant partners, always driving towards accelerating impact. Preceding Annie’s leap into philanthropic technology she spent more than 10 years at the Ford Foundation where she managed grantmaking for the Women’s Rights and International Human Rights portfolios. Annie taught a part-time class at Columbia University’s SPS Nonprofit Masters Program and Nonprofit Analytics and Metrics from 2018-2022, holds an MBA from Pace University, and is an active volunteer with Girls on the Run NYC and the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

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