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Steve Paprocki is a Managing Partner of Access Philanthropy.

Steve has spent his professional career involved in philanthropy—as foundation director, fundraiser, trainer, donor consultant, author, researcher, and lobbyist.

As Associate Director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), Paprocki wrote four books on corporate grantmaking and "midwifed" sixty women's funds, environmental funds, Black United Funds, health funds, and social action funds.

Before his work with NCRP, Paprocki was a lobbyist for the Catholic Church, a program officer for the Campaign for Human Development and the founding director of the Cooperating Fund Drive.

Steve has served as chair of the board of directors of the Carmen Pampa Fund (supporting a community college in rural Bolivia), as well as been a board member of Minnesota Charities Review Council. He has served as a founding member of Headwaters Fund and a member of the funding panel of Minneapolis Foundation/McKnight Foundation Neighborhood Self-Help Initiatives Program. He has also served as an advisory board member of the Women's Funding Alliance of Seattle, the Montana Civil Liberties Union, the Pacific Institute for Community Organizing, and the National Black United Fund.

Steve has a Masters degree in Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute, a Bachelors degree from the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota and a Labor Studies Certificate from Metro State University in St. Paul. Steve is an adjunct professor at Hamline University and Metro State University, teaching courses in fundraising and philanthropy.