Meredith Blair Pearlman joined the Pisces Foundation in 2025 as the organization’s first Program Director. In this role, she leads the program team in the implementation of the foundation’s integrated programmatic work, encompassing the Environment + Climate and San Francisco initiatives.
Throughout her career, Meredith has worked at the intersection of strategy and learning, building systems to support organizational effectiveness and continuous improvement. She has extensive experience in strategy development and the design of internal and external reporting, monitoring, and evaluation processes to foster organizational learning.
Meredith previously served twelve years at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, most recently as the Director of Evaluation and Learning, where she shaped the Foundation’s strategic direction in measurement and learning and facilitated collaboration across its diverse program areas. Prior to that, Meredith led evaluation and learning efforts at Humanity United. She began her career in international development and assessment as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa.
Meredith serves on the Steering Committee of the Center for Community and
Nonprofit Studies (CommNS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology. She holds an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Washington’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
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