Managing Partner, Portfolio InvestingNew Profit
Molly O'Donnell is a Managing Partner at New Profit, a national venture philanthropy firm where she co-leads New Profit’s Portfolio Investing team. Molly oversees the vision, strategy, and management of both New Profit’s Build (multi-year) and Catalyze (early stage, one-two year) investment portfolios and sits on New Profit’s Leadership Team. In this work, Molly oversees the selection and capacity building support for a portfolio of ~100 non-profit grantee partners across the issue areas of education, economic mobility, and democracy.
Prior to New Profit, Molly worked in non-profit consulting, briefly in the US Senate and began her career as a youth worker focused on student leadership, identity development, and family engagement in Portland, OR and New Orleans, LA.