Sue Renner Bio

Sue provides strategic direction and leadership for the Merage Foundations, a consortium of seven grant-making and operating foundations representing three generations of David & Laura Merage’s family. Sue is an experienced nonprofit innovator with a track record of leading numerous successful start-up ventures. As a social entrepreneur, Sue works to catalyze the Merage Foundations’ philanthropic capital—financial, intellectual, and human—to solve pressing social problems. While providing direction across the Merage Foundations’ social impact fields, Sue has vast Early Childhood Development expertise, and engages in a myriad of leadership roles with regional and national early care and education organizations.