Faith Cordell

Faith Calvert Cordell is a philanthropic advisor to Tides Foundation partners. In this role, she supports our partners make strategic grant decisions and achieve their goals. She serves as an advisory committee member on Tides’ internal grantmaking initiative, the Healthy Democracy Fund. Prior to working for Tides, she spent four years at RESULTS Educational Fund, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit with the goal of ending poverty through grassroots organizing and policy change. At RESULTS, she worked to cultivate and steward relationships with foundation partners on programs focused on anti-poverty advocacy, education, and global health. Faith has also worked extensively with U.S. government funding mechanisms, as well as supported business and proposal development in the international aid space. Faith holds a Master’s Degree in policy and advocacy with a focus on poverty and inequality from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in international studies and French.