Lynn Luckow: April 2018 Rotarian of the Month
Rotary Club of San Francisco
Lynn Luckow is a senior advisor, consultant, speaker, coach, and four-time CEO. Most recently he founded and led LikeMinded, Inc., a crowdfunding platform designed to assist nonprofit and civic enterprises expand engagement, funding, and impact in their local communities. Prior to LikeMinded, he served as President & CEO of Craigslist Foundation, Northern California Grantmakers, and Jossey-Bass Publishers. Over three decades he has acquired expertise in organization leadership, strategy, change, governance, philanthropy, and youth and adult development. Lynn has served on or consulted to over 50 nonprofit boards, including chairing the national boards of Chanticleer, the Kinsey Institute, Project Open Hand, and National 4-H Council, for which the National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations honored him as the nation’s top nonprofit board chair in 2000. Currently he serves on the boards of LikeMinded, Inc., Rotary Club of San Francisco, and Delta Upsilon International Fraternity, and on the advisory boards of Dive-In.co, QuarterZero, Project Open Hand, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, and World Arts West.
Lynn earned a B.A. in German, English, and creative writing with honors at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks in 1971 and a M.S. in Higher Education Administration / College Student Personnel with honors at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1974, and pursued advanced education in organizational psychology and leadership at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara. He has received three honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, and Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara. Lynn is an avid collector of photography and art and resides in San Francisco, California. Most recently, he served in a leadership capacity for the 2018 RYLA weekend for our District. He has been a member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco since 2016.