Pam Foster

As Co-Impact’s Chief Operating Officer, Pam provides strategic operations leadership including in the areas of finance and reporting, human resources, grants management, corporate governance, compliance, and information technology.

Prior to joining Co-Impact in 2017, Pam served in various legal and operational roles over almost 20 years for The Rockefeller Foundation, including most recently serving as Managing Director and Associate General Counsel. In between two stints at the Foundation, Pam was an associate with the Wall Street law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, where she specialized in ERISA, employment and executive compensation.

She is Chair of the Board of Directors of Safe Passage Project, a NYC-based 501(c)(3) organization that addresses unmet needs of indigent immigrant youth living in New York by providing legal representation for unaccompanied minors in immigration court. She also serves as vice-chair of the board of Philanthropy New York, which enhances and increases the ability of organizational and individual philanthropists located in the New York region to serve the public good. She was active in the development of NGOsource, the centralized equivalency determination repository run by TechSoup Global.

Pam received a bachelor’s degree with honors in Theater & Dance and Women’s Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a JD, summa cum laude, from New York Law School, where she currently serves on the Board of Trustees and as President of the Alumni Association. She is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey. Pam lives in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters.