Nancy Bales, Executive Director of the Gray Family Foundation, joined the foundation in 2014 after more than a decade with the Portland-based conservation organization Ecotrust, supporting their work to build a resilient economy. At the Gray Family Foundation, she championed the successful passage of a bill creating a statewide environmental education program for Oregon’s fifth & sixth grade students, and worked to secure public funding for the program through a ballot initiative in 2017.

Nancy sits on the Board of the Blue Sky Funders Forum, is the Chair Emeritus of the Oregon Outdoor School Advisory Committee, and sits on the Advisory Committee for the Latino Leadership Program at the Oregon Community Foundation.