Co-founder and PartnerBridgespan Group
Jeff is the co-founder of The Bridgespan Group, a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission-driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists. He served as Bridgespan’s managing partner from its founding in 2000 to 2021. Jeff now advises leading philanthropists and nonprofits, and writes and speaks on philanthropic strategy and operating models, transformative scale, community driven change, and racial equity in philanthropy. Jeff’s publications include: “The Problem with Color-Blind Philanthropy,” (Harvard Business Review, 2020), “The Impact of Large, Unrestricted Grants on Nonprofits: A Five Year View” (CEP, January 2023), and "Transformative Scale" (SSIR 2014).
Jeff has served on nonprofit and for-profit boards, including Giving Tuesday and PolicyLink. He is former board chair of Independent Sector. Prior to Bridgespan, Jeff taught at Harvard Business School, where he was a member of the Organizational Behavior and Social Enterprise Initiative faculty.
