Adriane Gamble
Administrative Assistant
 driane Gamble joined TCWF in 2004 as administrative assistant to Ruth Brousseau, the Foundation’s director of evaluation and organizational learning. Based in TCWF’s San Francisco office, Gamble provides administrative support to the director and also helps facilitate TCWF’s evaluation processes.
 At the close of each grant, program directors write closeout reports that describe outcomes, lessons learned, successes and challenges encountered during the grant period. Gamble works with Brousseau and the program directors —editing these reports, compiling statistical information, and preparing report summaries that are presented to the Foundation’s board of directors each quarter.
“Every day, I get a glimpse inside dozens of nonprofit organizations and see their successes and struggles in achieving their missions,” Gamble said. “I want to work in nonprofit management, so this experience is very helpful.”
Gamble attended Stanford University and graduated in 2004 with both a bachelor’s degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and a master’s degree in psychology. In addition to studying on campus, she had the opportunity to spend three months in South America.
“I attended classes in Santiago, Chile, but also had time to travel around the country and to Brazil and Argentina,” she said.
Gamble was raised in Santa Barbara, where her family lives. Her interest in nonprofit work began in high school when she was named to the Santa Barbara County United Way’s Youth Involvement Committee, whose members performed site visits at youth-oriented projects and made funding recommendations.
“Every day, I get a glimpse inside dozens of nonprofit organizations and see their successes and struggles in achieving their missions.”
Later, after her junior year, Gamble took a summer internship program through Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a program that places students of color in fields where they are underrepresented. Her position with the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation in New York City offered the chance to meet with a number of foundation executives and look at how their organizations worked on progressive social change. She learned about the TCWF job opening from an alumnus of the internship program.
Gamble lives in the Mission District of San Francisco. She is active in the local chapter of Swirl, Inc., a mixed-race community building and advocacy organization, and serves on its national board of directors. She also studies dance at the San Francisco Dance Center.
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