Dr. Kahn believes that emergency medicine provides a unique lens for understanding what is not working in a community; whether related to health, education, or poverty. Philanthropy has the opportunity and nimbleness to go upstream to tackle some of these issues closer to their source.

During his medical training, Dr. Kahn led 23-day wilderness retreats for at-risk youth in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota as an Outward Bound instructor because he believes in the transformative potential of experiential education. This insight is at the heart of the Abundance Foundation’s long term commitments to the educational programs Out of Eden Learn and Agency by Design. 

Dr. Kahn is the Chair of the Harvard Medical School Global Health and Service Advisory Council and serves on the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. 

He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Vanderbilt University Hospital and is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has worked clinically in hospitals in Haiti, Bolivia, Costa Rica, and Zambia, and has supported clinical capacity building programs throughout the world. 

Dr. Kahn completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry). As part of his postgraduate training, he completed the Global Health Delivery Intensive at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Media and Medicine Certificate Program at Harvard Medical School, and studied Existential Literature & Philosophy at Oxford University.

Dr. Scott Cohen has been practicing pediatric medicine since 1989, primarily serving high-risk, low-income patients in the U.S. and Latin America. A former Albert Schweitzer Fellow, he is founder of the Global Pediatric Alliance (GPA), an organization that works to empower indigenous community health workers to improve child and maternal health in poor, rural areas in Latin America.GPA’s evolution has been guided by its commitment to grassroots community empowerment, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability. With this focus, the organization continues to develop methods to help improve the lives of women and children in Latin America by empowering grassroots groups that have the knowledge and motivation to find their own solutions to child and maternal health problems. GPA provides funding and technical expertise through their Small Grants Program to support health projects designed by communities for themselves.

Dr. Cohen has also delivered pre- and post-operative care to surgical patients in Cuba and El Salvador, and has experience working in Gabon, West Africa. In the eastern rainforest of Guatemala, he provided primary care for indigenous villagers of all ages and taught basic Western medicine to local health promoters. He was attending nursery physician at Alameda County Medical Center and assistant director of an inpatient unit at Oakland Children’s Hospital. He was lead editor for the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newsletter on international child health for many years and has published chapters for books and articles on global pediatric health topics.

Dr. Cohen received his M.D. from Tufts University in Boston in 1989 and his Diploma in Tropical Medicine from Royal College of Surgery in Ireland in 2000. He completed his pediatric residency at Oakland Children’s Hospital. Currently, he is a pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente, Richmond, California. In 2019, he was selected for the prestigious David C. Lawrence community service award for his work with Global Pediatric Alliance.

Mary Moran Perry, JD is currently the Director of Gift Planning at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and the President of the Planned Giving Group of New England. 

Ms. Perry has a storied development career in planned giving having worked as the Senior Director of Gift Planning at Harvard Medical School (HMS) for nearly 18 years, where she counseled individuals on the financial, legal and tax-related aspects of establishing life income, retirement plan and estate gifts. Ms. Perry met Stephen Kahn while he was a medical student and provides inordinate guidance as he elaborated his longstanding partnership with Harvard Medical School.

Ms. Perry also collaborated with senior medical school leaders and faculty at HMS to successfully articulate the mission and need for support of medical education and basic science research. Ms. Perry partnered with medical school leadership to establish  and staff the first Advisory Council on Medical Education from 2001 – 2008, recruiting Dr. Kahn to serve on this first Council. Ms. Perry oversaw departmental strategic planning, goal setting, budget management, and performance management. Ms. Perry mentored, trained and educated staff to build trust, provide customer service to external internal constituents, and fostered successful collaboration with students, alumni, advisors, faculty and University-wide staff. 

Ms. Perry was also the Director of Planned Giving at Milton Academy for over five years, where she partnered with gift officers and provided inspired stewardship for Milton’s planned giving program, focusing on retirement plan gifts, bequests, blended and life income gifts.

Daniel Kaufman (he/him) is co-founder of Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies. He has worked with a diverse array of clients, including large, national foundations, emerging social enterprises, pioneering nonprofit collaboratives, and impact-driven corporations. Daniel leads Third Plateau’s innovation initiative, an effort to think critically about and better serve the social sector in a rapidly changing landscape. Through this work, Daniel has developed an interest and commitment to design thinking and network building. He is a firm believer that people are the key to social change. Across all of his engagements, Daniel prioritizes listening to stories, building enduring relationships, and cultivating partnerships.

In 2006, Daniel co-founded the Giving Circles Fund (formerly the One Percent Foundation, an organization building a broad-based movement of next generation philanthropists (ages 18-39) by making giving accessible, engaging, and meaningful.  GCF operates the largest online giving circle in the country and has been featured in national publications including the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post.

Daniel served as the Executive Director of the Giving Circles Fund from 2009-2012, managing and leading the organization’s long-term strategic growth efforts.  In this capacity, he developed substantial experience mobilizing grassroots communities, activating supporters through social media, and developing and implementing sustainable and scalable business strategies.  Daniel was instrumental in the design and rollout of GCF’s giving circle platform, a game-changing online tool that enables the proliferation of the giving circle model.

Prior to working for GCF, Daniel served as the General Counsel and Director of Governmental Affairs at Revolution Prep LLC, an educational services and products company.  In addition to his day-to-day legal duties, he worked with major foundations and education nonprofits to provide the company’s services to underserved student populations.  Daniel joined Revolution Prep after working in San Francisco as an associate at Heller Ehrman LLP, where he litigated numerous cases on behalf of the urban poor and immigrants and was actively involved in major impact civil rights litigation.  Formerly, Daniel worked as a Project Manager at the Interfaith Alliance in Washington, DC and as an Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, covering issues including international aid, economic justice, access to quality education, civil rights, and election reform.

Daniel is a graduate of Stanford University and the UCLA School of Law.  He lives in Sacramento with his wife, Talia, and two children, Mia and Eli.

Dion Griffin is Chief Financial Officer of Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies where he serves our expanding base of foundation clients and helps lead the firm’s financial strategy and operations. He leads and manages the finance and administration components of our foundation clients including budgeting, accounting, investment reporting, insurance and compliance.

Dion served as Director of Client Accounting Services at Leventhal Kline Management for over three years where he provided expertise in tax, compliance, and accounting for LKM’s private foundation clients. His prior professional experience includes serving as Director of Finance and Operations for the Hayward Area Historical Society and Executive Director of the Harbor Bay Business Park Association. He was Co-Manager of the Pocket Sanctuary at Kenyon Ranch in Tubac, Arizona, where he transformed an historic dude ranch into a nonprofit retreat center dedicated to research, education and training for psycho-social development and compassionate healing.

Dion has worked as a Financial Analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York and London and as an Accountant for Arthur Andersen & Co. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley and is a licensed C.P.A. in the State of California. His volunteer activities include serving on the board of the Glide Economic Development Corporation a nonprofit that owns and operates affordable housing in San Francisco. He previously served on the Marin Humane Society Audit Committee.