[1] Heintz coined the term “acupuncture philanthropy” to describe his philanthropic approach of leveraging modest financial assets to trigger larger systemic change on critical issues.

[3] Heintz began his professional life in public service for the state of Connecticut, starting as the chief of staff to then-senate majority leader Joseph Lieberman in 1974.

[5] Based in Prague, he managed programs throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to help propel civil society development, economic reform, and international security as the bedrock of these burgeoning democracies.

[6] After returning the United States, Heintz co-founded Dēmos, a public policy organization that works to reduce political and economic inequality and to broaden citizen engagement in American democracy, and served as its president until 2001.

[8] In 2010, he set an ambitious path to align investment of the Fund’s financial assets with its mission, resulting in its 2014 decision to divest from fossil fuels and establishing the RBF as a leader in the DivestInvest movement.