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Santa Clara, California, Us

Helping select and manage the cohort of 50 social entrepreneurs per year participating in the Miller Center Accelerator program, as well as assisting with the growth of Miller Center Capital, which invests in alumni of the accelerator program.For over 25 years, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship has been a leader in the global social enterprise movement. With an emphasis on climate resilience and women’s economic empowerment, we accelerate social entrepreneurship to end poverty and protect the planet. Located at Santa Clara University, we have served more than 1,600 social entrepreneurs based in over 100 countries that have impacted hundreds of millions of lives. We fuse the entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley with the university’s heritage of social justice, community engagement, and global impact, guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Miller Center Capital is a collection of funds managed by Beneficial Returns for Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. Our funds lend exclusively to high-potential graduates of the Miller Center Accelerator program, which has accelerated 1,600 social enterprises since 2003. We directly invest catalytic capital into high quality, de-risked, early-growth social enterprises. We are an impact-first debt fund providing innovative, custom structures that match the specific needs of enterprises. Since our launch in 2020, we’ve invested $3.4M in 30 social enterprises worldwide fighting to end global poverty.We fund entrepreneurs from diverse sectors across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. And while other investors continue to ignore diverse founders, 66% of our portfolio is woman-led, locally-led, or both.

Technology platform democratizing access to top quality mental health resources.

San Francisco, California, Us

Served as Head of Business Development for this venture-backed plant-based meat startup as they ramped up their K-12 offerings. Helped them understand the education space, introduced them to several school districts to determine product-market fit, compiled list of target customers across a variety of segments, set up email/LinkedIn outreach campaign to decision-makers, recorded deal progress in Hubspot.Planetarians produces a patented, clean, whole cut vegan meat made with two just ingredients and a carbon footprint 9x better than other, leading plant-based meats. We make delicious plant protein sustainably and more affordable than animal protein, reducing CO2 emissions by 100M tons per year. Our whole cut protein with muscle texture and savory umami taste has 50x more efficiency than animal protein, and higher protein, more fiber, less fat, and fewer calories and ingredients than other alternatives. Healthier for people, better for the planet, flexible for a variety of meal applications, and at an affordable price point, allowing us to partner with school organizations as well as other food manufacturers, our patented process produces a vegan product made using zero-waste technology from just two upcycled ingredients: Brewers Spent Yeast and Soybean Meal.www.planetarians.com

Los Angeles, California, Us

Led business development and new partnerships for Revolution Foods, a venture-backed B Corp social enterprise serving 2 million healthy school and community meals per week nationwide. Added over $30 million in new business ($1M+ per month) since joining the company, working with K-12 schools, districts, and nonprofits as well as at the city, county, state level to address food insecurity among children, low income families, recently-arrived immigrants, seniors, the unhoused, the incarcerated, and disaster victims.Revolution Foods mission is to transform school and community wellness by making healthy meals that are clean label, culturally relevant, nutritious, chef-crafted, and accessible to those who need them most. To date, this venture-backed, Certified B Corporation, and Public Benefit Corporation has produced over 500 million healthy meals for over 2,500 public schools and municipal organizations in over 500 communities in 23 states across the country with support from investors and board members including Emerson Collective with Arne Duncan, Revolution Growth with Steve Case and Kristin Gunther, L2 Point with Kerstin Dittmar, and Jed Smith with Catamount Ventures.With food made by locals for locals, the 1,000 team members are hired, trained, and promoted within the communities they live in. Revolution Foods is California's largest K-12 school meal vendor.

Led global business development and strategic partnerships for this venture-backed education technology company (which evolved into Altitude Learning and the Learner Centered Collaborative) with the mission to catalyze and accelerate the shift to learner-centered models in schools across the world.I focused on building relationships, partnerships, and revenue in the areas of K-12 education, out-of-school time, B2B, education technology, philanthropy, the private sector, and adjacent verticals, at the regional, state, national, and international level.AltSchool aimed to reimagine the education industry and democratize access to an exceptional and personalized education in order to enable all children to reach their potential, make the best education the most available, and give students, educators and parents voice, choice, and agency.The team of world-class educators, operators, and technologists built a software platform for learner-centered, whole-child, student-drive education at scale, co-developed, rapidly tested, and iterated products and curriculum with our lab and partner schools; and licensed the tech to schools nationwide to create conditions for continuous and high-velocity learning and improvement in our network and beyond. AltSchool initially raised $120M+ from Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, Harrison Metal, Learn Capital, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, John Doerr and other exceptional investors, and its personalized whole-child outcomes-based online learning platform, support, and services were used by 30+ partner schools nationwide.Both a Certified B Corp and a Public Benefit Corporation, Altschool/Altitude reached 1M learners served in 2020 and sold SaaS business to Higher Ground Education in 2021.

San Francisco, California, Us

Advised boards and executive leadership teams on growth strategy and related operational and organizational development.The Jackson Hole Group is a boutique management consulting firm serving CEO’s, boards, and executives when they need actionable solutions to a complex and confidential organizational challenges. JHG's mission is to provide sustainable solutions to executive leaders’ most complex challenges with speed, pragmatism, and actionable results.Partners act as an extension of client teams, get to the core issues quickly, deliver practical solutions to move organizations forward, bring real-world experience to client issues, listen carefully, dig deep to treat the cause not the symptoms, and deliver unwavering honesty. Served clients in:• Executive Effectiveness• Board Development• Strategic Transformation• Business Model Transformation• Overcoming a Growth Ceiling• Restructuring of a Mission-Driven Organization• Strategy/Business Model Support• Human Resources Challenges• Mergers and Acquisitions• Post-Merger IntegrationEngagements focused on instituting self-sufficiencies through true knowledge transfer so that client team’s proficiencies grow through collaboration. www.jacksonholegroup.com

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Created and taught graduate school courses in U.S. Consulting and Social Enterprise in USF Business School, Master in Global Entrepreneurial Management Program and Master in Nonprofit Administration Program.In the Consulting course students work closely with faculty at USF, as well as with a company located in the San Francisco Bay Area, to complete a consulting project focused on a particular problem identified with the company. In the Social Enterprise course, students study, profile, and create social enterprise organizations to both do well and do good.

San Francisco, California, Us

As a partner, focus was on business development, managing client projects, growing the firm, knowledge creation, and having a positive impact on the world through helping clients grow sustainably. Helped grow the firm 10X in terms of clients, revenue, and employees.Schaffer&Combs solves problems and creates growth for mission-driven organizations that possess the vision and ambition to make genuine change. Clients include nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, philanthropies, foundations, and social entrepreneurs who want to build and implement innovative management solutions.Projects included: strategic and tactical planning; fundraising training and execution; impact identification and measurement; messaging, communications, and online engagement; grantmaking and program management best practices; organizational design and executive recruitment; management support and executive coaching; organizational effectiveness; family philanthropy--vision, mission, legacy, generational dynamics.

SocialTransactions made an automatic donation to your favorite cause whenever you buy something at virtually any online store. It takes ten seconds to start using and costs nothing. STRX was founded by a team of nonprofit industry veterans and technology entrepreneurs in order to help fundraising professionals easily access new sources of revenue.STRX uses browser technology to pay a fundraising organization a commission every time its supporters buy something online. There are two aspects of STRX: one for end users, and one for fundraising organizations. For end users, STRX is a free browser application that works automatically and invisibly anywhere they shop on the web. For fundraising organizations, STRX is a free web service that makes it easy for them to deploy the browser application to all their supporters by email or the social web.

Knowmia reimagined the role of technology and the internet in education. Positioned at the intersection of education and social media, Knowmia is an education technology platform for the creation, storage and distribution of educational videos and is building a community of crowdsourced video lessons from great K-12 teachers to help students succeed in school. A Y Combinator company, Knowmia was named one of the most innovative companies of 2013 by Fast Company magazine and had over 30,000 lessons in its free video library from more than 10,000 educators worldwide, as well as a robust video content creation tool that can be used via iPad. Knowmia has subsequently been sold to TechSmith.

Oakland, California, Us

Helped design fundraising strategy and capital campaign for this innovative charter school network.

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Antique import and retail business

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Served as a Fellow at one of Japan's largest investment banks, working in the Corporate Planning department in downtown Tokyo, and living in employee dormitory housing. A combination of work, study, cultural immersion, and travel, this 3-month Fellowship incorporated business experience with PiA’s mission to promote goodwill and understanding as well as facilitating the free interchange of the best ideals in the civilizations of both East and West.Princeton in Asia aims to foster mutual appreciation and cultural understanding by connecting service-minded graduates and partner organizations in Asia through immersive work experiences that transform perspectives, cultivate long-lasting relationships and benefit local and global communities.Founded in 1898, PiA has been building bridges between the U.S. and Asia for over a century. PiA’s original mission is as meaningful and urgent today as it was 126 years ago. The need to educate Americans about Asia and to help Asian communities better understand the United States has never been higher.Each year, PiA sponsors over 100 fellowships in 20 countries and regions and is the oldest and largest organization of its kind, unique in its scope, size, century-long expertise and emphasis on service. The essence of PiA is to provide transformative, service-oriented experiences for bright, talented graduates and to serve the needs of Asia as determined by our host institutions and Asian partners. PiA arranges fellowships with Asian host organizations that contribute to important global issues at the local level: education, public health, environmental sustainability, access to information/media, economic development and social justice. Fellowships are the means of fostering person-to-person diplomacy, enhancing mutual understanding, contributing to communities with unmet needs, and providing transformative experiences for fellows and host communities.