Franny Chiles Canfield

Franny Canfield (pronouns: she/her) is the Chief Operating Officer at the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA). Franny has been at EGA for over ten years, serving as EGA’s Program Director for Knowledge first in New York, and then opening and serving as Associate Director of EGA’s West Coast Office in San Francisco in 2014.

In her role, Franny oversees programs to help EGA members reflect on how their grantmaking fits into the larger environmental movement and learn from key philanthropic initiatives in the U.S. and abroad. In 2008, Franny launched EGA’s Tracking the Field program, an ongoing research-based analysis of environmental grantmaking. Since 2008, Franny has published five Tracking the Field reports and developed EGA’s searchable Tracking the Field database with over 90,000 environmental grants. Franny oversees EGA's global programming including the 2017 Global Distance Learning Program in Southern and Eastern Africa and the 2016 learning tour in Cuba. Franny graduated with a B.A. in U.S. Politics and Government and Environmental Studies from the University of Puget Sound.

Franny lives and works on the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, in the San Francisco, Bay Area, with her two young daughters and husband. Please take this opportunity to learn more about whose land you are on and to go beyond land acknowledgements and support an indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area.