Miki Akimoto is Vice President, Philanthropic Advisory Services, supporting families, foundations, and philanthropy-serving organizations in a range of work including governance review and refresh, engaging senior philanthropic leaders, and convenings.
Previously she was the Chief Impact Officer at the National Center for Family Philanthropy where she oversaw the major external functions of the organization including programming, signature national events, sector partnerships, and community engagement.
Other roles have included serving as a Senior Philanthropic Strategist at Bank of America’s Private Bank. In that role, she provided consultation and support to families, foundations, and major nonprofits about their governance, grantmaking, and impact strategies. Prior to joining the Bank of America, Miki was Vice President and then Acting President of Philanthropy Massachusetts, the regional association of foundations, corporate givers, and other key donors in Massachusetts and (at the time) New Hampshire. She also served as the first Director of Grants Management for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and as a program officer at the Corporation for National Service/AmeriCorps.
She is actively involved in the philanthropic community nationally and locally. She is president of the board of Third Sector Holdings, and is a member of the board of TSNE. Prior board experiences include chairing the boards of the Full Frame Initiative and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, and serving on the boards of YWCA Boston, the Boston Foundation for Architecture, and the Forum of Regional Associations of Grant Makers. She was a co-founder of the Saffron Circle, the first Asian Giving Circle in Massachusetts.
She holds a Bachelor of Political Science degree from Stanford University, and lives in Medford, Massachusetts. In her spare time, she bakes, reads, and travels to far flung places whenever she can.