In 1998, Mr. Craves was appointed co-chair of the 2020 Commission on the Future of Post-Secondary Education. At the conclusion of the Commission, Mr. Craves and Ms. Ann Ramsay-Jenkins founded the Washington Education Foundation (now the College Success Foundation), bringing together community leaders from across the state of Washington to help the thousands of students who are left behind—the ones not adequately served or supported by existing government and scholarship programs. Craves has authored a book Funding the Future about this topic.

In 1983 Mr. Craves was one of the founding officers of the Costco Wholesale Corporation. He served as the Senior Vice President of Membership and Marketing until 2000.

Mr. Craves is a member of the board of trustees of the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, the Arizona College Scholarship Foundation and the Le May Museum.

Ms. Ramsay-Jenkins has chaired the UW Medicine Board, served two terms as a member of Washington's Higher Education Coordinating Board, chaired the United Way of King County Board, the Seattle Repertory Theatre Board of Trustees, and was founding Chairman of the Seattle Repertory Theatre Foundation. She is also active in a number of other civic, professional and community organizations.

Ms. Ramsay-Jenkins's professional experience includes a five-year term as Director of the Office of Budgets at Harvard University, as Assistant Secretary of Administration & Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and as a Management Associate in the Office of Management & Budget, Executive Office of the President, in Washington D.C. She was appointed a White House Fellow in 1972 and served in the Executive Office of the President, Office of Drug Abuse Prevention where she received the Distinguished Service Award in 1973.

Ms. Ramsay-Jenkins, a graduate of Skidmore College, has been a director of Indian Head Banks, Inc. in New Hampshire. She also served as a board member of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and as a member of President Carter's Advisory Committee for Women.

Before coming to the Foundation in 2006, Dr. Wilds was a senior program officer for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where her responsibilities included serving as the Foundation's liaison to the Gates Millennium Scholars Program, the Gates Cambridge Scholars, and the Washington State Achievers Program and developing other college access related programs for low-income and students of color. She was also responsible for the early college initiative to create 250 new early college high schools across the country.

Prior to that, Dr. Wilds served as the Deputy Director of the American Council on Education's (ACE) Office of Minorities in Higher Education, in Washington, DC. She was the Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of New Era Education, an independent school and pre-school located in Baltimore, Maryland.

She currently serves as a member on various boards, including the District of Columbia College Success Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest, and College Spark. She also serves on the Board of Regents at Seattle University.

Dr. Wilds was awarded her Ph.D. in Education Policy, Planning, and Administration at the University of Maryland at College Park. She received her M.S. degree in Education Administration from Howard University and her B.S. degree from the California State University, San Diego, in Speech Pathology and Audiology.