Timothy C. Wu

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Tim Wu, CTF’s Chief Strategy Officer, oversees external relations, partnership development, and communications at the Foundation. Tim came to this role in 2006, after having - in his position as Vice President and Director of Programs - restructured the foundation's grantmaking priorities to focus on media content and distribution.

Prior to joining CTF, Tim served as the Deputy Director and Program Director of the September 11 Fund, managing the distribution of over $500 million in disaster relief assistance following the 2001 New York City and Washington, DC terrorist attacks. Tim's involvement in HIV/AIDS issues spans nearly 20 years. As a journalist with CBS national news in the mid-1980's, Tim worked on early coverage about what was initially known as "Gay Cancer" or GRID (gay related immune disorder). Upon moving to San Francisco in 1992, the first local board which Tim joined was that of Continuum HIV Day Services. Soon after, he joined the Board of Project Inform. Subsequent professional and volunteer capacities included being a member of the CompassPoint Nonprofit Services team which wrote the San Francisco Ryan White CARE Act AIDS Prevention Plan; spearheading Project Open Hand's strategic planning process; and management consulting to groups such as the API Wellness Center, New Leaf, National AIDS Memorial Grove, AIDS Legal Referral Panel, and DIFFA (Design Industry Foundation Fights AIDS).

As a donor and fundraiser, Tim is particularly proud of his decade-long collaborative work with amfAR Board Member Ambassador James Hormel. Separately as individuals and together through the Small Change Foundation which they jointly developed, Tim and Jim have made hundreds of grants to local, national, and international HIV/AIDS agencies such as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (New York), Food and Friends (DC), Elton John AIDS Foundation (International), the ACLU MSM project, AIDS Health Project, and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Tim and Jim are joint recipients of Project Open Hand's Volunteer of the Year award. This past September, they served as Honorary Co-chairs for the 25th anniversary of Macy's Passport, which has raised over $25 million in the fight against AIDS.

In 1999-2000, Tim served as a White House Fellow to US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. While in that capacity, Tim brought Secretary Shalala to volunteer at the Washington-based Food for Friends meal delivery program, and visited AIDS service programs in Kenya and South Africa. Tim is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Princeton Univeristy, and at the age of 21, became the youngest and the first Asian-American elected to Princeton's Board of Trustees. Tim holds a JD Cum Laude from Harvard Law School, and is admitted to the California bar.

An active volunteer outside the AIDS arena, Tim is currently a board member of College Track, the San Francisco Ballet, the National Advisory Board for Tectonic Theatre Project, the National Board of Governors for Equality Forum, and sits on the San Francisco Asian Art Commission.

AMFAR Awards Gala Celebrates Courage
San Francisco Bay Times - San Francisco,CA,USA
Moreno presented an award to Timothy Wu, whose involvement in HIV/AIDS issues spans nearly two decades. Moreno said that as a journalist with CBS national ...