Heidi Klaimitz began her career in New York licensing programming to international and domestic broadcasters. After working in London she spent over six years in Milan as International Corporate Communications Manager for the entertainment division of Mediaset. Subsequently she worked as a consultant in media, marketing and research in New York and Rome.

As a Director of the New York City Venture Philanthropy Fund, Heid iworks on all phases of strategic and tactical planning including review and revision of mission, goals, and programs for the Fund that invests in New York City social innovators and entrepreneurs. She chairs the Grants Committee and is a member the Project Management Committee and is a voting member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and serves on the organization’s Educational Outreach Committee.

Heidi is committed to applying her managerial and communications skills to the non-profit sector and has completed a professional program in Grantmaking and Philanthropy at NYU’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising and the Executive Education, Middle Management Program for Nonprofit Managers at Columbia University, Graduate School of Business.

Photo Caption: Kondwani is 15, in form two and on our scholarship program. Like many Malawian girls, she is interested in becoming a nurse. Part of her desire to study nursing could be the absence of other female role models. Apart from nurses, she does not come into contact with professional women. Foundation President Gillian Rose asked her to read from a schoolbook. She chose a passage from Rome and Juliet.

Headmaster Mr. Longue says his school near Chintheche is expanding but the number of classrooms and furniture remain the same. It is a tight fit. It has a modest library with books as varied as T.S. Eliot’s poetry, Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, Bill Cosby and John Grisham, the latter obviously donated. Our student Violet’s favorite subject is English. She is seen here trying on school shoes we bought her.