Lisa Stone Pritzker
Founder & Chair
Lisa Stone Pritzker is an advocate and activist for the health, wellness, and education of children, teens, young adult and women. She is the Founder and Chair of the LSP Family Foundation, working with organizations focusing on children’s health and education, mental wellness, the arts, and Jewish life. A Chicago native, Lisa’s commitment to philanthropy and community service were a central part of her upbringing.
Ms. Stone Pritzker has called the San Francisco Bay Area home since 1984. In 2004, she was appointed to the California First Five Commission, which funds statewide programs for children in their first five years of life. She has been a long-time volunteer for Safe and Sound (formerly the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center) including for their crisis hotline center. She is deeply involved in community building and civic life and has long supported the Alonzo King LINES Ballet.
Lisa serves on a variety of committees and boards, which include: the Board of Trustees for the University of California at San Francisco; Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Board of Trustees of All Chicago Making Homelessness History; Board of Directors of Project Healthy Minds; and the Advisory Board for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF. She served as Honorary Chair of the Hearts in SF program benefitting San Francisco General Hospital in 2020, served on the Host Committee for the Jewish Funders Network’s 2019 and 2020 International Conferences, the National Advisory Council of Futures Without Violence, and the Leadership Council for Peer Health Exchange. She served on the Transition Policy Committee for San Francisco Mayor London Breed, is a past chair of Challenge Success, a Stanford University-seeded program, and is currently Co-Chair of the Strictly Business Leadership Council of Jewish Vocational Service (JVS).
Lisa received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in dance therapy and holds a Masters in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco. She is graduate of the Wexner Heritage program for Jewish community leaders and also completed The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW), a year-long course that brings together philanthropists committed to making lasting, positive change. In 2011, The California Institute for Integral Studies recognized Lisa’s commitment to children’s health by awarding her an honorary doctorate.