Rebecca Van Sickle (she/her), Managing Partner

For over 25 years, Rebecca Van Sickle has worked for private and corporate foundations managing and leading grants management strategy, delivering technology solutions, coordinating grants process and policy changes, and guiding efforts in knowledge management. Rebecca founded 1892 consulting in 2014 with the goal of helping the philanthropic sector embrace good grantmaking practices that reduce burden on grantees and staff, elevate the importance of the grants management function, and seamlessly connect people, process, and technology. 

Rebecca has advised scores of clients on the strategic grants management function and delivered end-to-end system implementation projects across all major vendors. Prior to founding 1892, Rebecca served as the Director of Grants Management at the Atlantic Philanthropies, where she led a grantmaking system selection and implementation project that involved adapting review and approval processes to an online workflow for the spend-down foundation. Rebecca also worked in grants management roles at CitiFoundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. 

Rebecca received her B.S. from Northwestern University and her M.B.A. from Cornell University. She is a current member of NGOsource’s Advisory Council and a former Board Member of PEAK Grantmaking. Rebecca was a participant in the 2020-2021 Harmony Initiative cohort by Justice Funders. Rebecca lives in Portland, Oregon in a historic home built in 1892 on Cowlitz, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and Clackamas land. Rebecca is a competitive tennis player who also loves gardening, reading, and skiing with her family.