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Kwaku Driskell

Kwaku Driskell is the program director at the Thompson Family Foundation (T.F.F.)

Kwaku Driskell is the program director at the Thompson Family Foundation (T.F.F.), where he oversees the agency’s grant-making in criminal justice, workforce development, college access, arts and culture. He oversees about $25 million in grant making annually. Kwaku works to identify agencies for funding and collaborates with the agency leadership to ensure their success. He performs programmatic and fiscal analysis of the agency’s health and develops and applies metrics that estimate the long-term economic impact of an agency’s efforts on the individuals served.

Prior to joining T.F.F. Kwaku served as a senior program officer on the Youth team at Robin Hood, a nonprofit charity serving New York City. In this role, Kwaku invested over $8 million annually in nonprofits dedicated to improving outcomes for young people across New York City.
A skilled fundraiser, he also worked closely with Robin Hood’s development team to provide sector-specific content knowledge when meeting with potential donors.

Prior to joining Robin Hood, Kwaku served as the program manager for Young Audiences New York, an arts-in-education provider to the New York City public school system. In this role, he worked closely with the leadership of partner schools to integrate the arts into the classroom to enhance the school’s curriculum.

In addition to his nonprofit work, Kwaku is a classically trained actor with over 20 years’ experience onstage and in voiceovers. Kwaku is a board member at the Levitt Foundation, an organization dedicated to empowering youth to address food inequities in their communities. He is also on the board of the Y.M.C.A.’s Camp Jewell in Colebrook, CT.

Kwaku is a proud graduate of Northwestern University where he graduated with a degree in Communications and Theater and a minor in Spanish. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three daughters.