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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
challenges in creative ways: "The Robin Hood Foundation" (with Catherine Ross). Created by hedge fund and investment managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
nonprofits led by people of color had been building for some time. “We’ve known that less than 2 percent of funding from the nation’s largest philanthropies is specifically targeted to the Black community,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
nonprofit consultancy of its type. Its staff offers strategy consulting, executive search, and advice on developing funding models. Bridgespan today is far different from the organization laid out in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
quickly, the School doubled funding for its summer fellowship program and opened it up to graduating as well as first-year students. These fellowships provide stipends to supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
A Wall Street Pioneer Comes Home
to serve as JSJ’s vice chairman of the board in addition to overseeing a family foundation fund and volunteering in community organizations. “I knew I wanted to come back to this area at some point,” she says. “One of my aims was to give... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Natural World
and net assets of $4.6 billion, with over 119 million protected acres in thirty countries, WSJ.com reported (June 10, 2010). Two months after Tercek assumed his post, the recession hit, delivering a powerful blow to the funding that... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
which provides the school’s building rent-free, is currently funding an expansion that promises to more than double ASMS’s physical space. A 2007 Intel School of Distinction finalist, ASMS concentrates on math and science but its... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
waste, and have significantly lower rates of waste than the national average.” Kendall says the foundation’s multi-year, $485,000 grant to the university has helped it develop new relationships with local growers, processors, and distributors and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
of the most important things Bill taught is that the source of your funding is often more important than the terms and conditions of the agreement," says James A. Goldstein (MBA '94), founder and sales and marketing vice president of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
come together to plan an event or activity that will recognize and continue their ongoing commitment to social enterprise — a history that includes efforts as diverse as volunteer consulting, fundraising, community events and programs, and scholarships that have View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
knew its impact could extend far beyond her own situation. It meant she could devote herself to Rocket Learning, the nonprofit she had launched in 2020 with her brother, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019), which leverages digital technology to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
An investment in meaningful results
Ending poverty in New York City is a monumental goal, but as president and chief operating officer of a modern-day nonprofit that bears the legendary moniker Robin Hood, Deborah Winshel (MBA 1985) uses her business acumen to effect social... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school's gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
(HBSWANY), presented the discussion in partnership with the nonprofit Girls With Impact to explore how Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company, is using philanthropic and investment capital to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
records. The Class of 1960, for example, raised $3 million in honor of its 40th Reunion, while those celebrating their 30th Reunion, the Class of 1970, had raised close to $5.4 million. Professor F. Warren McFarlan led a discussion on social enterprise in the... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
On any given day in his job as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012) might find himself analyzing funding sources with the nonprofit organization’s CFO, lunching... View Details