The Chronicle of Philanthropy Interview with Dexter Hall

How to Recruit and Lead Staff Who Truly Know Your Community

Dexter Hall, interim executive director of the Providence Foundation of San Francisco, often sits in meetings listening to data on the poverty, housing issues, and economic disparities that the organization takes on daily. “I don’t have to imagine who those numbers represent,” Hall says. “I think: I am data. Every statistic someone reads off a slide is someone I’ve known.”