Who We Are
Board of Directors
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Executive Director
Banner photography by
Sand Hill Foundation 3000 Sand Hill Road, 1-120 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former Chairman (1998-2008) of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund), a venture philanthropy fund that leverages its partners’ financial, intellectual, and human capital to make a measurable impact in the Silicon Valley community. Under her leadership, SV2 built a portfolio of 25 grantees and nearly 400 investors, and it won the Silicon Valley Association of Fundraising Professionals Philanthropic Organization of the Year in 2008.
Laura is the Co-founder and Advisory Board Chairman of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Laura has created and teaches Stanford Graduate School of Business’ first course on Strategic Philanthropy and Stanford University’s first course on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. Since 2000, Laura’s faculty appointments include Lecturer in Business Strategy and Associate of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford GSB; Lecturer in Public Policy and Haas Center for Public Service Visiting Scholar at Stanford University; and Lecturer at the Stanford School of Education.
Laura serves as Director of the Arrillaga Foundation, which focuses on education and community development in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a contributing author to the book Local Mission, Global Vision – Community Foundations in the 21st Century. She is currently writing Great Giving, Great Living: How to Harness Your Time, Money, Knowledge, and Passion in Pursuit of a Better World and New Philanthropy: Paradigms for 21st Century Foundations.
Laura is a former Public Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She currently serves as a board member of Sand Hill Foundation, Stanford University School of Education, SIEPR (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research), and Women’s Health at Stanford Medical Center. She is a former trustee of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Hoover Institution, Community Foundation Silicon Valley, Castilleja School, Menlo School, Eastside Preparatory School, San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford Athletic Board, and Children’s Health Council. Laura created and co-chaired both the first International Venture Philanthropy Summit (2004) and the first Stanford Conference on Entrepreneurship in Philanthropy (1998).
A native of Palo Alto, California, Laura is a graduate of Castilleja School. She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA in Education from Stanford School of Education, and a BA and MA in Art History from Stanford University. Laura received the 2001 Jacqueline Kennedy Award for Women in Leadership, and in April 2005, she became a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. She was also awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the Points of Light Foundation in June 2005 and Children and Family Services’ Outstanding Silicon Valley Philanthropist Award in 2009. Laura lives with her husband, technology entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, near Stanford University, and together they enjoy literature, art, writing, yoga, athletics, and laughing as much as possible.
