Bud Heckman (@BudHeckman) serves as the Convenor of the Interfaith Funders Group and as a Senior Advisor for Religions for Peace USA. He served as Vice-President and President of Religion Communicators Council, a faith-based professional communicators organization that has enjoyed a cooperative relationship with RNA, and has consulted for the Religion News Foundation. Bud served for President Obama on the Interreligious Cooperation Task Force of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. (Remember 44?)

Bud works to advance our world as a place where religious differences are seen as an asset and people of faith strive to work together from a place of shared values. Bud founded an affinity group of donors and foundations working to foster interfaith understanding and cooperation and advance religious literacy. He consults widely.