GRANT-MAKING EXPERT NEVILLE GABRIEL JOINS GIVEOUT’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES

GiveOut is proud to announce the appointment of Neville Gabriel to its Board of Trustees. 

Neville is the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Other Foundation, a Southern African regional LGBTQI community foundation. Neville brings a wealth of experience in grant-making and grassroots activism.

"From its inception, I have been super impressed by GiveOut’s approach of standing in solidarity with the aspirations of LGBTQI activists in the field rather than imposing predetermined strategies as an international donor. There's a great sense of fulfilment in now being able to contribute to advancing that vision of international solidarity more deliberately, by joining the team at GiveOut as a trustee rooted in Africa.”

- Neville Gabriel

Neville is the chairperson of several community shareholding trusts linked to solar and wind renewable energy plants in South Africa. He was previously the founding executive director of the Southern Africa Trust, an independent regional funding agency that supports policy engagement between governments and non-state actors to overcome poverty in Southern Africa.

He was a member of Global Citizen’s global policy committee, a member of the Africa policy advisory board of Bono’s ONE campaign, and a senior fellow of the Synergos Institute. He was a member of the founding steering committee of the African Grantmakers’ Network (AGN), the chairperson of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the chairperson of the Open Society Foundations’ Africa advisory committee, a trustee of the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC). He previously worked at Oxfam in media and advocacy and at the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) coordinating social and economic justice programs.

“We are proud to welcome Neville to our board of trustees. We have long admired his work and leadership in the Southern African LGBTQI movement and we will benefit greatly from his grant-making expertise and leadership perspectives.”

-Elliot Vaughn, GiveOut’s founder and Chair

The appointment of Neville comes at an exciting time for GiveOut as we look to celebrate five years of resourcing the global LGBTQI movement.