Rachel Pohl

Rachel L. Pohl works with Hemenway & Barnes lawyers and trustees to counsel clients on charitable giving in a variety of fields.  In addition, Ms. Pohl is a senior program officer for the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust, focusing on the health grant program, and Jane’s Trust, with an emphasis on grantmaking in the health and welfare fields, together conducting grantmaking in New England states and Florida.

Ms. Pohl graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 and from Columbia University with a Masters in Public Administration, specializing in international resource economics and policy.  Ms. Pohl’s experience prior to Hemenway & Barnes includes four years as an administrator at Grants Management Associates where she provided program support for the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust.

Ms. Pohl serves on the advisory committees for the Urban Medical Group and the Health Passport Project in Massachusetts. In the early 90’s, she was a consultant for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to help start-up the Collaboration of Community Foundations for the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem, a U.S./Canadian philanthropy partnership. She served on the original steering committee of the Health and Environment Funders Group and the New England Grassroots Environment Fund, and is currently active on state and national philanthropy networks. From 1987 until 1991, she managed a national environment grant program of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation focusing in the southern tier of the United States and Mexico. Ms. Pohl has also worked in the nonprofit and private sectors, managing community development and energy-related programming and providing environmental consulting to public sector agencies.  She is a board member of ArtCorps, an international nonprofit organization that strengthens investments in Central American countries and southern Mexico by paring artists with non-profits working on public health, and social and environmental justice initiatives.