Staff Bios

Diana Bucco joined The Forbes Funds as Senior Program Officer in April 2005. As of November 1, 2006, Diana became President of The Forbes Funds. From 1999 until 2005, Ms. Bucco served as founding Executive Director of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership; there, she managed programs that provide training for more than 200 new and emerging leaders each year, including Coro’s national flagship Fellows Program in Public Affairs as well as programs that serve women and minorities, up-and-coming politicians, and neighborhood leaders. During her years with Coro, Ms. Bucco conceived the New Generations Program, a research division, and developed the Regional Internship Center, which connects regional interns with local employers. Prior to Coro, Ms. Bucco was the founding Executive Director of The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she worked in Harrisburg as the Executive Director of Pennsylvania Campus Compact, a presidential membership organization dedicated to increasing civic responsibility on college and university campuses. During her career in the nonprofit sector, Ms. Bucco has received recognition for her accomplishments as one of Pennsylvania’s top leaders of the X Generation, as a member of “Pittsburgh’s 40 under 40,” and as an American Marshall Memorial Fellow. Ms. Bucco has also served on numerous boards and advisory groups for organizations in the Pittsburgh region, including: YouthPlaces; Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board’s Youth Policy Council; Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development; America’s Promise; and the Allegheny Conference Young Talent Task Force.

 

Vivien Luk is the Community Resources Officer of the Forbes Funds.  She joined the Forbes Funds as an Associate in the fall of 2005.  Currently, her responsibilities include managing the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership (GPNP), a coalition of about 300 nonprofit organizations in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region; Sector Leadership programs and mini-grants, including Conversations and the Executive Education program; and Cohort Grants, supporting professional development in numerous ways.  She is also responsible for the development, launch, and on-going Pittsburgh – San Francisco coordination of the Great Nonprofits website, an online Zagat for the Nonprofit Sector.  Check it out at www.greatnonprofits.org.  

 

Outside of the Forbes Funds, Vivien is one of three co-founders of PGH Party for a Purpose (PPP - www.pghpartyforapurpose.org), an organization that hosts fun, creative, and affordable parties for diverse and young-minded individuals while raising funds and generating support for nonprofit organizations in Southwestern Pennsylvania.  PPP was founded in November of 2006 and to date; has benefited 6 organizations, raised over $10,000, and attracted over 1,200 party-goers.  Vivien is also the brainchild behind the Annual Market Square Water Balloon Fight that takes place in July.  She serves on the board of the Human Services Center Corporation; on the grants committee at the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern PA, and is also a member of the World Affairs Council Young Professionals group.  She received her M.S. in public policy and management from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and her B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles.