Lou Cove is Founder and President of CANVAS, a collaborative fund dedicated to supporting the 21st century Jewish cultural renaissance. Lou has spent his career at the intersection of contemporary culture and Jewish life. He has served as both a trustee and a senior advisor to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and helped co-create the PJ Alliance — a cohort of supporters dedicated to PJ Library’s national and global growth. Lou is also the author of Man of the Year (Flatiron Books), an Amazon 2017 memoir of the year, a People Magazine pick of the week (“Hilarious and poignant”) and a Booklist Starred Selection (“The kind of book readers fall in love with”).

Lou is the former executive director of Reboot — a think tank and incubator for modern Jewish culture — where he oversaw the development of numerous Jewish cultural projects, including Sukkah City, 10Q, and the National Day of Unplugging. Lou was also vice president of the National Yiddish Book Center where he helped build an endowment, a new building, and a sustainable platform devoted to reclaiming a lost literary canon.

Sarah is C.O.O. of CANVAS and a D.C.-based arts professional with a passion for creating an equitable future for the arts. After seven years at the National Endowment for the Arts, where she served artists and cultural organizations nationwide as a Program Specialist in Media Arts, she joins CANVAS with a vision to help us better serve our grantees and elevate the Jewish arts and culture community. She has held previous roles in grantmaking and curatorial work at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and The Jewish Museum. Sarah is also an artist in her own right, working in mixed media and collage. 

Regan Solmo is Strategic Advisor to CANVAS, and designed and runs the Executive Mentor component of CANVAS’s Leadership Development programming for its Grantees. She is a big picture–focused, passionate, and accomplished thought partner; designer of operations and systems; and Executive Coach.

Regan advises nonprofit leaders and their Boards on organizational and management strategy; capacity-building through clear communication and goal-setting; and has run numerous successful Executive Search, placement, and onboarding efforts. She is one of CANVAS’s most sought-after Executive Mentors.

She has more than 10 years of experience serving on and leading nonprofit Boards, most recently as the first-ever New York Board Chair of Girls Leadership. As a two-term Board member of The New York Women’s Foundation, Regan sat on the Grants Allocation Committee for 4 years. As Director of Individual Giving for Student Leadership Network, Regan was a strong, clear communicator and strategic builder of major donor relationships, and secured six-figure, multi-year gift commitments.

Regan has 25 years of leadership experience in the consumer magazine publishing sector, with 10 years as Executive Managing Editor of Condé Nast’s W Magazine; she also spent 4 years as Managing Editor of Condé Nast’s Lucky, and held the same title at Harper’s Bazaar; SPIN; Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, and other well known magazines. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Tzivia Schwartz Getzug is the Senior Advisor to CANVAS, collaborating with the CANVAS team and coordinating support with the Jewish Funders Network (JFN). Tzivia also serves as the JFN Senior Director of Philanthropic Engagement and JFN West, where she creates opportunities for network members to connect, engage, strengthen, and leverage their philanthropic work. Tzivia is also the Executive Director of the Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund and the U.S. Program Director of the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society in Israel.

Tzivia is a lawyer who has spent most of her career in the Jewish non-profit world. Her extensive experience includes five years as the founding executive director of Jewish World Watch, an innovative non-profit working to combat genocide and mass atrocities through targeted community engagement and has worked in philanthropy for almost 15 years.

Tzivia’s engagement with Jewish arts and culture came when she worked with DreamWorks’s founder, Jeffrey Katzenberg, as the Community Liaison on DreamWorks Animation’s first film, The Prince of Egypt.

CANVAS Operations Manager Merav David has been working in Jewish nonprofits in the New York area for the last several years. She served as the Day Coordinator for the Museum of Jewish Heritage Pickman Museum Shop, the Office and Systems Administrator for Young Judaea Global, and as Program Assistant for Jewish Funders Network. Merav received her BFA from the University of Hartford with dual majors of Judaic Studies and Interdisciplinary Art, and a minor in Art History. During her studies, she participated in notable archaeological work alongside Richard Freund (z”l), including excavations at Bethsaida as well as non-invasive Holocaust archaeology across Lithuania. Merav is a potter, abstract painter, and cat-mom. You can find her at the local farmers market, cooking (especially the Iraqi foods her savta makes), or connecting with other Mizrachi artists in NYC.