DeeDee serves as Candid’s Vice President of Administration. In this role, she leads Candid’s human resources, facilities, and administrative functions. Previously, DeeDee joined Foundation Center as director of human resources (HR) in April of 2010, with responsibility for managing the HR staff and overseeing all HR functions. DeeDee has extensive experience in HR having worked at Citigroup for many years. During her time there, she had increasingly responsible positions, including managing the Employee Relations & Programs department, recruiting, and providing HR leadership for various divisions, such as Capital Markets, Finance, and the Private Client Group. Prior to joining Foundation Center, she served as human resources director at the Harlem School of the Arts, a nonprofit community-based organization committed to training more than 3,000 students annually in dance, music, theater, and visual arts. DeeDee has an M.S. in HR Management from the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School and a bachelor’s degree in business management from Howard University.

As President & CEO of GuideStar, Jacob Harold worked closely with colleagues at the Foundation Center to form Candid in 2019.  During his tenure at GuideStar, he oversaw a doubling of the organization’s reach, the creation of the GuideStar Profile Program, the launch of the Overhead Myth campaign, and hundreds of new partnerships. 

Harold came to GuideStar from the Hewlett Foundation, where he led grantmaking for the Philanthropy Program. Between 2006 and 2012, he oversaw $30 million in grants that, together, aimed to build a 21st-century infrastructure for smart giving.  At the beginning of his career, Jacob worked as a climate change campaigner for Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA and as organizing director at Citizen Works. He also worked as a consultant to nonprofits and foundations at the Bridgespan Group and as a climate change strategist for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation based at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India.

Jacob was named to the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 NonProfit Times (NPT) Power and Influence Top 50 lists.  He served as a term member for the Council on Foreign Relations and on the advisory boards of Bright Funds Foundation, Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and Docusign IMPACT. He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Effective Philanthropy and the Duke University Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and is a member of the editorial board of the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Jacob has written extensively on climate change and philanthropic strategy. His essays have been used as course materials at Stanford, Duke, Wharton, Harvard, and Oxford. He earned an AB summa cum laude from Duke University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a certificate in public management. Harold has further training from Green Corps in grassroots organizing, Bain in business strategy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in complex systems science, and the School for International Training in Tibetan studies. Jacob was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his parents ran small community-based nonprofit organizations.

Working out of Candid’s president’s office, Miz’s role is to coordinate the workstream groups’ initiatives to integrate Foundation Center and GuideStar into a single organization and serve as board secretary. She is also lead for the workstream group specifically on change management and culture. Miz brings more than 15 years of international cross-sector management experience across the philanthropic, nonprofit, and financial services sectors. She previously led GuideStar's finance, strategic planning, special projects, and monitoring and evaluation systems. Before joining GuideStar, she served as vice president of operations, strategy, and talent at Global Citizen Year, a fast-growing and acclaimed internationally focused nonprofit social enterprise in youth leadership development. Miz also managed nearly $1 billion in investments and served in the chairman's office focusing on philanthropic initiatives at Usaha Tegas, a $10 billion business conglomerate in Malaysia. Earlier in her career, Miz spent time at the Fannie Mae Foundation, Citigroup, and the social investing firm Acumen. She holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. 

Evan leads Candid Labs, which oversees research and innovations for new and existing products/programs such as GuideStar Profiles, GrantCraft, IssueLab, GlassPockets at Candid. For his entire career, Evan's work has focused on engaging diverse stakeholders using cutting-edge technologies to enable large-scale decision making and collective action. Evan was previously GuideStar’s vice president of products responsible for GuideStar's product design and development. He has more than 17 years of experience leading product and project teams in membership-based, grant-funded, and fee-for-service nonprofit organizations. Before joining GuideStar, Evan co-founded the first software as a service Web application in the University of California system, called SeaSketch, which is used by agencies around the world for collaborative planning of ocean resources. He has written multi-stakeholder negotiation simulations published by the Harvard Program on Negotiation and worked with leading stakeholder engagement firms such as AmericaSpeaks, the Consensus Building Institute, Kearns & West, and Concur. His work has enabled diverse interests to reach agreement on issues including climate change adaptation, disaster recovery, and health care. At the beginning of his career, Evan worked as a campaigner for ForestEthics and field organizer for the Public Interest Network. He has a master's in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Missouri.