Joe Womac has served as President at Specialty Family Foundation since 2013, where he helps guide the Foundation’s strategic and targeted investments in poverty alleviation. Currently, the Foundation’s partnerships and grantmaking emphasize housing and education through collaborative and systemic impact. Previous to this role, Womac served as Executive Director of Seattle’s Fulcrum Foundation from 2003-2013. In both of these roles, Joe and his teams have embraced positively disruptive concepts in poverty alleviation, often utilizing cross-sector collaborative grant-making aimed at system change.
Joe has served on many boards and commissions, including currently serving a term on the Advisory Board of the LA County Center for Strategic Partnership, as Co-Anchor for the Foster Together Network Cross-Sector design team, as a Board Director of Queen of Angels Housing Alliance, and as a member of the LMU School of Education Board of Visitors. He has also served for years as a contributing member of SCG’s Family Foundation Advisory Council.
Joe holds degrees in law (JD, Seattle University), education (M.Ed. University of Notre Dame), Political Science and Communication Science (BA, University of Portland).
