Clark Charitable Foundation
The Clark Charitable Foundation, Inc. is a private organization funded by the A. James Clark Family and managed by its Executive Director, Courtney Clark Pastrick. The Foundation’s mission is to provide a better quality of life for people living primarily in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. The Foundation places particular emphasis on organizations or programs that benefit the disadvantaged and those involving medical research, health care, and education.
Because the Foundation’s programs are carefully focused to achieve its goals, grants are awarded as part of Foundation-initiated searches. The Foundation requests proposals from grantees it has identified through a careful screening process.
Courtney Clark Pastrick is an active member of the Washington, D.C. volunteer community in a variety of areas. Ms. Pastrick is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Washington Episcopal School. She previously served on the Board of Trustees of Everybody Wins! – a mentoring and literacy program in the District of Columbia, as well as The Sidwell Friends School, Discovery Creek Children’s Museum, the William Wendt Center for Loss and Grieving and WETA. In addition, Ms. Pastrick served on the steering committee for the Children’s Hospital National Campaign and was President of the Board of Trustees of the National Child Research Center. She has participated in major fundraising endeavors for SOAR (Save Our Aging Religious), Catholic Charities, and chaired the Capital Campaign for The Sidwell Friends School.
A member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bar Associations, Ms. Pastrick practiced at the law firm of Shapiro & Olander of Baltimore, Maryland, specializing in corporate law. She also held positions as Deputy Legal Counsel to the House Agriculture Committee of the United States House of Representatives and as a Judicial Clerk for Judge Charles R. Richey in the United States District Court, Washington, D.C. Ms Pastrick earned her Juris Doctor from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. She earned her B.A. from Duke University.
