Jo’ie Taylor

Director of Partnerships - Career Pathways, Entertainment Industry Foundation

Jo’ie D. Taylor is an accomplished nonprofit leader with proven ability to create strategic alliances with corporate partners, community-based organizations, and philanthropists to build sustainable, value-based strategies for social good. As the director of partnerships at the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), she serves as an advisor to celebrity charities, providing administrative and strategic support, to amplify their social impact. Prior to joining EIF, Jo’ie worked at the Television Academy Foundation, focused on institutional giving, alumni engagement, and building donor-led diversity and inclusion efforts including the Power of TV series and career pathways to unscripted television for Angelenos. Prior to her role at the Television Academy, Jo’ie served as a program director and development manager for Jumpstart for Young Children, a national language and literacy organization, focused on workforce development and advocacy in the early childhood education space. While at Jumpstart, Jo’ie also was a lecturer in the Child and Adolescent Studies Department at California State University, Fullerton.