Kathryn Ann Agard, Ed.D., is Executive Director of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at Grand Valley State University. Prior to joining the Johnson Center, Dr. Agard served for a decade as founding Executive Director of Learning to Give, an initiative of the Council of Michigan Foundations. In this role, she had management responsibility for a unique new venture to develop, test, refine, and infuse the teaching of philanthropy into the el-hi curriculum.