Joel Bashevkin Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

As Interim Chief Operating Officer, Joel guides the start up and scaling phase of VC Include's program and operations. VC Include is committed to dramatically increasing the number and influence of women and people of color in the VC investment industry through advocacy, education and training programs.

• Action- & Impact- oriented consulting practice for select U.S. and globally-based entrepreneurial leaders and organizations investing in corporate social responsibility and nonprofit operational excellence. Providing.
• Developed strategy plan and positioning to reorganize leading network organization for fiscal sponsors.
• Organizational Development, Strategic Planning, and impact planning for numerous fiscal sponsors.
• Advising new leaders in their social enterprise startups, including executive coaching, organizational development and nonprofit development and operations.
• As Corporate Social Responsibility Advisor at Imperative, designed and launched corporate social responsibility initiative that guides employers to predict what types of volunteerism and giving will be the most.
• Senior Advisor to the Global Pro Bono Network’s Governing Council, providing business modeling, marketplace design and leadership development to member organizations throughout the world.

San Francisco, CA, US

• As Director of Social Ventures at Tides, Joel led an expert team that delivers critical strategic and operational services to hundreds of social entrepreneurial organizations. Tides is a philanthropic partner and.
• Led largest US based fiscal sponsorship organization of 150 nonprofits with 750 employees and $262M annual budget. Guided the growth of program by 50% during tenure with stable, scaled staffing, infrastructure and.
• Guided team and clients through COVID crisis, retaining staff, sustaining partners. Created anddelivered $1m+ in rapid-response needs-based grants matched with capacity building supports.
• Provided executive organizational development coaching and leadership for fiscal sponsors, and nonprofit intermediaries and field leaders
• Guided the organization’s revenue modeling assessments resulting in improved efficient services and increased net revenues.
• Led Tides’ initial theory of change process to clarify and refine the impact goals for measurable results.

San Francisco, California, US

• Conceptualized, founded and led strategy implementation for the Global Pro Bono Network, a joint venture with the BMW Foundation, the rapidly growing (35%/yr) premier international network of over 40 social.
• Guided program development and delivery for the Global Pro Bono Summit, a highly rated annual summit attracting social good corporate and NGO leaders from over 30 countries.
• Presented internationally and consulted to global Fortune 500 corporations, foundations, government agencies, social entrepreneurs and NGOs on the topics of how to drive business value, attract future talent, retain.

San Francisco, California, US

• As Executive Director, Joel was responsible for building a strong pro bono marketplace regionally. Joel led many of Taproot’s efforts to engage business professionals, nonprofits and corporations in high quality.
• Directed the delivery of 500,000 hours of high quality pro bono capacity building consulting grants by 5,000 business volunteers to more than 900 west coast nonprofits, an effort valued at nearly $50M.
• Partnered closely with over 100 leading foundations and corporations and secured $12.5M in grants and contracts to design and deliver customized programs that strengthened nonprofits.
• During founder transition, served as co-CEO & CFO; led annual budget process, achieved clean audits, and delivered surplus fiscal performance.
• Led research and design for innovative national leadership development model to deliver cost effective blended online learning to all US-based nonprofits, with American Express Foundation and Annie E. Casey Foundation.

San Francisco, California, US

• Developed and managed towards scale and impact goals introducing new field of corporate employee engagement and social sector capacity building in communities across the western United States.
• Built and led all staff, grants, programs, funding and budgets for three offices in Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
• More than doubled (210%) annual grants program delivery from 88 clients to 184 clients with high quality results and post project evaluations.
• Developed strategy, secured anchor support and successfully launched Taproot’s Los Angeles expansion in 2008. Achieved 3 year target goals in first 2 years.

Berkeley, California, US

• Led all functions of mission-driven multi-generational community service organization. Led staff of 60 and supported volunteer Board leadership in serving Northern Alameda County. Developed and led execution of.
• Recovered agency from near closure, first for Berkeley JCC and then for Oakland JCC and guided agency through successful merging into new JCC of the East Bay - a larger stable regional organization
• Solicited and secured operating and capital funds. At start of tenure, led agency from $700k debt to debt free status for the first time in 25 years
• Managed and expanded agency budget by 73% with balanced performance
• Prepared and negotiated successful and smooth incorporation spin-off from parent corporation
• Wrote numerous successful large grant applications

San Francisco, CA, US

• Oversaw all administrative and business-related matters. Managed exhibition, program, facility and equipment operations. Administered personnel system, insurance and benefits, financial systems and procedures, includes.
• Created business plan and bond financing modelling for construction and creation of the new Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Created and presented annually special Jewish family programming for December 25th

Boston, MA, US

• Supervised the daily operations of a large rapidly growing anchor hunger organization serving Eastern New England.
• Coordinated dispatch, transportation, receiving, storage and distribution of 6 million+ pounds/year of donated food. Supervised a staff of 12. Oversaw a large volunteer program.
• Established guidelines and supervised quality control in food handling.
• Maintained and improved the facilities, trucking fleet and warehouse equipment in safe and sanitary conditions.
• Co-Chair of Boston Mayor's Hunger Policy Commission

M.A., Public Policy & Non Profit Management

B.A., Nutritional Anthopology