Staff

David Bonbright - Chief Executive

David is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone. Over the past three decades, as a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, and Ashoka, David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models of social service delivery and social value creation.

While with the Ford Foundation, he was declared persona non grata by the apartheid government in South Africa. In 1990 he returned to South Africa and entrepreneured the development of key building blocks for civil society, including the first nonprofit internet service provider, the national association of NGOs, the national association of grantmakers, and enabling reforms to the regulatory and tax framework for not-for-profit organisations that were among the first laws passed by the newly elected Mandela government.

Andre Proctor - Programme Services Director

An African historian by training, Andre has worked for the last thirty years in education and development practice. For the last twelve years he has specialized as facilitator of organization development processes for CSOs in Africa, including program evaluations where he has pioneered new approaches to developmental impact evaluation.

A founding partner of Keystone in 2004, Andre now serves as its Programme Director and manages the Cape Town office. He leads on the development of Keystone’s ground-breaking Impact Planning, Assessment and Learning (IPAL) methodology and also co-leads in the development of Keystone’s Comparative Constituency Feedback Survey methodology.

Nick van Praag - Ground Truth program

The Ground Truth program is led by Nick van Praag, whose career spans humanitarian and development work at the UN, the World Bank and the Aga Khan Development Network. Nick has focused on the linkages between humanitarian programs and development during much of his career, most recently as a member of the core team preparing the World Bank’s World Development Report for 2011. His particular interest in beneficiary feedback and humanitarian performance stems from his time at UNHCR. Please click here to learn more about the Ground Truth program.

Kai Hopkins - Finance and Operations Manager

After completing a degree in politics, Kai has worked in non-profit management for 6 years, guiding several organisations through periods of expansion. Kai joined Keystone after 3 years as General Manager at Alliance magazine, the leading publication on international philanthropy and social investment, which is funded by trusts and foundations worldwide. Kai is entering the final year of an MBA focusing on charity management, and is responsible for all financial and operational matters at Keystone.