Frances Phillips is the Program Director for the Arts & Creative Work Fund at the Walter and Elise Haas Fund in San Francisco. She was previously Executive Director of Intersection for the Arts and Director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Phillips has over eighteen years of experience with fundraising and grantwriting for nonprofit organizations in the fields of arts, humanities, health, education and social services. She now serves on the Publications Committee for Grantmakers in the Arts Reader.