Ryan McDonough
Founder, Sometime Artist
CFO and co-founder @Accompany, acquired by @Cisco. Turnaround CFO @Ning, sold to Glam Media. Former seed VC. McKinsey trained. @Wharton School and @Haas School of Business.
In its 26 years, the V Foundation has awarded more than $250 million in cancer research grants nationwide. Twenty-six years ago, the diagnosis and prognosis related to cancer were not as optimistic as today. Because of research, there are earlier diagnoses, a better understanding of what causes some cancers, more positive prognoses of some cancers, and therapies designed to kill cancer while preserving the patient’s overall health. The V Foundation distributes research grants for all types of cancer to the most promising scientists nationwide through a competitive process vetted by a Scientific Advisory Committee.
The V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded by ESPN and legendary basketball coach Jim Valvano with one goal in mind: to achieve Victory Over Cancer®.
Act2Art Founder, Ryan McDonough, has been on the board of The V Foundation Wine Celebration, for over 10 years.
Vancouver’s Chinatown is more than a historic neighborhood. It’s a living community shaped by generations of immigrants, entrepreneurs, families, and cultural traditions.
The Vancouver Chinatown Foundation is working to ensure that community continues to thrive. Its approach to revitalization brings together affordable housing, small-business development, and cultural preservation—recognizing that a neighborhood’s future depends as much on its people as its buildings.
Through initiatives like Bob & Michael’s Place, the Chinatown Impact Fund, and the Chinatown Storytelling Centre, the foundation is creating stable homes, strengthening local businesses, and preserving the stories that make Chinatown extraordinary.
I’m proud to support an organization that honors the past while investing in a more vibrant, inclusive future. Building housing is one thing; building community is everything.
350+ residents provided stable homes through two housing initiatives
100 businesses supported, with many reporting 25–30% revenue increases
Cultural events 25,000+ visitors welcomed through foundation-produced community festivals
1,500+ students from 50 schools welcomed by the Storytelling Centre in 2025
EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. We are committed to changing the narrative about race in America. EJI produces groundbreaking reports, an award-winning wall calendar, and short films that explore our nation’s history of racial injustice, and we recently launched an ambitious national effort to create new spaces, markers, and memorials that address the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, which shapes many issues today.
EJI provides research and recommendations to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of criminal justice reform. We publish reports, discussion guides, and other educational materials, and our staff conduct educational tours and presentations for thousands of students, teachers, faith leaders, professional associations, community groups, and international visitors every year.
We challenge the death penalty, extreme sentences for children, excessive punishment, and abusive prison conditions through litigation, advocacy, and education.
We share America’s history of racial injustice, from enslavement, racial terror lynchings, and segregation to mass incarceration.
We engage communities in conversation about the legacy of racial injustice, informed by reports, online experiences, and hands-on projects.
We create opportunities for honest reflection about our history and its legacy in spaces that inspire
Meeting Bryan Stevenson in 2019.
