Meet our Team

Pedro A. Ramos is president and CEO of the Philadelphia Foundation, one of the first community foundations in the nation. Pedro has spent his career guiding organizations through critical inflection points and redefining how those organizations support and communicate with the communities they serve.

Lois Gabin-Legato joined The Philadelphia Foundation as Vice President of Institutional Advancement in October 2016. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was Associate Vice President at the Office of Institutional Advancement of Drexel University, where she led advancement efforts for the College of Computing & Informatics and the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

Orlando C. Esposito joined the Philadelphia Foundation as Chief Financial Officer in April 2019.
Prior to joining the Philadelphia Foundation, he served as Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of PNC’s asset management group and previously as EVP of its corporate banking group.

Melissa Fordyce serves as Executive Director, Marketing and Communications for the Philadelphia Foundation. In this capacity she works to create, oversee and implement short-and long-term brand and marketing strategies and disciplines that elevate public understanding of the Philadelphia Foundation’s work as the region’s oldest and largest community foundation. Having dedicated more than a decade of […]

Contact Phil for information about our grants and programs: pfitzgerald@philafound.org

Diane Melley is Executive Director of Second Century Initiatives & Corporate Partnerships for the Philadelphia Foundation. Melley leads planning, execution, and partnership-building, in support of a year-long series of initiatives launching Philadelphia Foundation’s second century of civic and philanthropic leadership in the community. Melley also leads the building of new strategic relationships with the corporate sector.

Betsy Anderson serves as has served as Director of Communications for the Philadelphia Foundation since 2009. In this capacity, she coordinates communications about the organization regionally and nationally to create and build a positive reputation for its mission of growing long-term philanthropic dollars to benefit Greater Philadelphia. Betsy previously served as Assistant Director of Communications […]