Who Leads It

The people behind it

The next step in a family that has always served the arts — built to be handed forward.

The Lineage

This board carries forward what four generations built: Herman Baron’s founding of ACA in 1932, Simon Perchik’s poetry and environmentalism, Jeffrey and Dorian Bergen’s stewardship of American art and their contributions to modern impact philanthropy, and now a permanent home to honor and nurture it for generations to come.

Vaughn Bergen
President

Vaughn Bergen

Leads the Foundation and represents the family — the steward of the whole.

Vaughn carries the family’s philanthropic and cultural spirit forward, building Art For Impact and the Foundation’s wider mission around one belief: artists lead the way, and where art goes, the world follows.

Kayla Rose Bergen
Director of Family Giving

Kayla Rose Bergen

Organizes the annual tribute to Jeffrey and the fundraising that powers the mission.

Kayla builds the Foundation’s development, its annual benefit, and the systems — digital and otherwise — that allow the family to support the projects that need it the most.

Elliott Bayev
Treasurer

Elliott Bayev

The Foundation’s first independent board member.

Elliott has spent his career building networks of change-makers, funders and policy-makers — through Global Unity and his work at Transformative — and joins as the Foundation’s first independent board member, bringing the outside perspective and connections the family doesn’t have on its own.

The next step in a family that serves the arts.
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