Jen Rainin launched the Kenneth Rainin Foundation in 2008, and has served as CEO since that time. She previously worked as a teacher and literacy specialist, earning her doctorate in education from the University of Illinois, Chicago along the way. Under Jen’s leadership, the Foundation has adopted a targeted approach to grantmaking, developing several major initiatives in the Arts, Education and Health program areas. In the Arts, she established the SFFILM Rainin Filmmaking Grants, a successful partnership that has become the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the US. She also helped create the Community Arts Stabilization Trust, a groundbreaking real estate