Darin McKeever serves as president & CEO of the William Davidson Foundation, one of Michigan’s largest independent, family foundations. Since joining the William Davidson Foundation in 2015, Darin has advised and guided Mr. Davidson’s family on the direction of their philanthropy, clarified the organization’s mission, values, and grantmaking strategies, and assembled a team of world-class professionals to source, support, and steward transformative grants and partnerships across Southeast Michigan, Israel, and the Jewish world.
Previously, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Darin built and led an international team which engaged opinion leaders, policymakers, associations, and technology platforms to improve the overall effectiveness of philanthropy and charities worldwide. For more than a decade prior to that, Darin was the executive director and co-founder of Heads Up, a provider of academic and enrichment programs which, under his leadership, became the largest AmeriCorps program serving the DC region.
Darin is an alumnus of Harvard College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in social studies. He received his M.P.A. as a Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
