Joanne Pasternack is a dynamic and visionary philanthropic impact strategist who, over the past two decades, has galvanized community engagement with internationally recognized brands including the Golden State Warriors, San Francisco 49ers, ServiceNow, City of Mountain View, and Special Olympics.
As the President + Chief Impact Officer of Oliver+Rose, she works with professional athletes, legends, entertainers, philanthropists, corporate executives and high net worth individuals to amplify their impact to inspire change around their areas of passion, commitment and expertise. Joanne is also the Executive Director of the Golden Heart Fund, serving 49ers alumni who are in need of financial, medical, physiological or emotional support. Joanne spent twelve seasons leading philanthropic efforts for professional sports franchises in the NBA and NFL, most recently serving as the Vice President of Community Relations for the Golden State Warriors and the Executive Director of the Warriors Community Foundation.
Previously, Joanne was the Vice President and Executive Director of Community Relations and 49ers Foundation for the San Francisco 49ers. At the Warriors, Joanne increased the Foundation’s charitable fundraising by 110%, to $9.2M; developed framework for the largest corporate/professional sports team charitable partnership activation to date (Kaiser Permanente’s $295M Generation Thrive program); oversaw 300+ events; opened basketball courts; and amplified CSR engagement with partners such as JPMorgan Chase, Rakuten, Verizon, Pottery Barn and Oracle. Under her leadership, the back-to-back NBA Champions completed two NBA Finals Legacy Projects and received the San Francisco Business Times 2018 Beyond the Check Award.
In September 2018, Joanne was named one of 35 women in SportsBusiness Journal/Daily’s “Game Changers: Class of 2018.” She also supported NBA All-Star Kevin Durant’s successful bids for the 2018 Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award and NBA Community Assist Award and facilitated the social justice awareness programming in Washington, DC following the Warriors’ 2017 NBA Championship. Previously, Joanne was the Vice President and Executive Director of Community Relations and 49ers Foundation for the San Francisco 49ers, creating and managing high visibility philanthropic partnerships. Under her leadership, the 49ers were ESPN’s 2017 Humanitarian Team of the Year, Beyond Sport’s 2015 Sport Team of the Year and received the 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Sports Philanthropy. In October 2016, Joanne was one of 200 delegates at the “Sport in the Service of Humanity” convening hosted by Pope Francis at The Vatican. She also launched a $4M partnership with Chevron to create the ground-breaking 49ers STEM Leadership Institute. Joanne played a pivotal role in augmenting engagements with Levi’s®, Intel, BNY Mellon, Optum/UnitedHealthcare, United Airlines, Dignity Health, and boutique vintners.
At ServiceNow, Joanne served as Head of Global Impact – a newly created role where she developed and launched a global corporate social responsibility portfolio for the $10B cloud computing company. She created a purpose-driven portfolio, positioning ServiceNow as a global innovator in high-impact social responsibility programming through the company’s first corporate advised fund, matching grant and volunteer time-off programs; branding and marketing, and programming around developing opportunities for marginalized populations in an AI-centered future. Joanne holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, JD from Santa Clara University, and completed the Executives in Non-Profit Leadership program at Stanford GSB. She is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown, the University of San Francisco, and John’s Hopkins. Joanne resides in San Jose, California with her family. Non-profit boards include Special Olympics, Figure Skating in Harlem, Wender Weis Foundation for Children and Ubuntu Football Academy. Corporate Advisory Boards include biotechnology firm, Applied Silver and donation rewards-focused mobile application, Change.
A retired competitive figure skater and passionate advocate for girls, women and gender parity, Joanne is an engaging and vibrant presenter and sought after speaker who regularly appears on stage, in podcasts, in webinars and as a keynote or panelist on a variety of topics, including sports for social good, work-life optimization, leadership, girls’ empowerment, board development, fundraising strategy, corporate engagement and impact, and raising awareness for younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease in honor of her father and mentor, Bruce Pasternack.
