THE HOSTS

  • Tulaine Montgomery is a serial entrepreneur, educator, artist, and organizer. She has played leadership roles in the launch and expansion of social enterprises across the U.S., the Caribbean, East Africa, Indonesia, and South Africa. She is also a trusted advisor to nonprofit organizations and socially responsible companies providing strategic and financial support to many of our nation’s most powerful and promising social innovations. Tulaine is Co-CEO of New Profit, a national venture philanthropy fund that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs. She leads New Profit’s Inclusive Impact, a $100 million social impact fund providing growth capital and capacity support for Black, Latino/a/x, and Indigenous social impact leaders. Tulaine is also the Chair of the Board of GirlTrek, the nation’s largest public health network for Black women. She also serves on the Boards of YouthBuild, Beyond 12 and College for Social Innovation. She has a master’s in public policy from Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree from Smith College.

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  • New Profit is a venture philanthropy organization that backs social entrepreneurs who are advancing equity and opportunity in America. New Profit exists to build a bridge between these leaders and a community of philanthropists who are committed to catalyzing their impact. New Profit provides unrestricted grants and strategic support to a portfolio of organizations led by visionary social entrepreneurs to increase their impact, scale, and sustainability. It also partners with social entrepreneurs and other cross-sector leaders to shift how government and philanthropy pursue social change to ensure that all people can thrive. Since its founding in 1998, New Profit has invested over $350M in 200+ organizations and, through the America Forward Coalition’s collective advocacy efforts, has unlocked over $1.7B in government funding for social innovation.

  • For over 35 years, Echoing Green has been on the front lines of solving the world’s biggest problems, raising up the transformational leaders willing to speak truth to power and challenge the status quo. The organization finds emerging leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible and sets them on a path to lifelong impact. Echoing Green’s community of nearly 1,000 social innovators includes past Fellows such as First Lady Michelle Obama and the founders of Teach For America, Center for Black Innovation, BlocPower, and One Acre Fund. Built and refined over three decades, Echoing Green discovers tomorrow’s leaders today, and then funds, connects, and supports a new generation of social impact leaders.

  • NEXUS is a global community founded to bridge communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship. With over 6000 Members from 70 countries, we work to unite young investors, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and allies to catalyze new leadership and accelerate needed political, societal, indigenous, financial, environmental, and equal justice solutions.

    NEXUS has hosted over 40 Summits across six continents to connect young people from diverse backgrounds and link communities that would otherwise never meet. NEXUS puts the hope and promise of young people on the world stage by bringing together leaders at regional NEXUS events for inspiration, education, dialogue, and collaborative problem solving.

  • A part of the Aspen Institute, the AGLN is a growing, worldwide community of nearly 4,000 high-integrity, entrepreneurial leaders from over 60 countries who share a commitment to values-based leadership and to using their creativity, energy and resources to tackle the foremost societal challenges of our times. https://agln.aspeninstitute.org/

  • Jeffrey Walker has been working in the philanthropic/social change arena for more than 30 years and has extensive experience across multiple disciplines and a major network of influential contacts. He is the co-author of The Generosity Network (Crown, 2013), Chair of New Profit (the venture philanthropy partnership), Founder of BridgeBuilders, Chair of the Contemplative Science Center at UVa, on the boards of Just Capital, Giving Tuesday, the African Philanthropy Forum, the Leadership Now Project, and many others. For twenty-five years, Jeff was CEO and Co-Founder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Company’s global private equity, Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Virginia, is a Certified Management Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant

  • Maverick Collective by PSI is a community of women philanthropists making catalytic investments in health and reproductive rights to accelerate gender equality. Founded in 2013 by Population Services International, Melinda French Gates and the Crown Princess of Norway, Maverick Collective has mobilized over $100M in resources for rapid innovation in global healthcare that is driving systems change. At the core of Maverick Collective's mission is its experiential philanthropy approach, which blends real-dollar grantmaking with hands-on learning alongside a thriving community of peers. The aim is triple impact: impact on women and girls; impact on members in becoming more authentic and activated agents of social change; and impact on philanthropy in becoming more bold, flexible, aligned and feminist.

  • Synergos is a global organization that has pioneered the use of bridging leadership, which builds trust and collaboration to solve complex problems. We have used this inclusive approach with partners around the world for 35 years to achieve extraordinary results meeting local and national needs.

    Today, we help dismantle systems that create the most urgent problems of our time: poverty, social injustice, and climate change.

  • The Philanthropy Workshop is the leader in strategic philanthropy education and community curation. As the largest community of its kind, TPW engages humble leaders who seek to leverage their time, talent, resources, and ties for sustainable impact. We partner with every member to establish clear social impact goals, create a strategic roadmap for community engagement and educational programs, and curate expert connections and resources.

  • Our mission is to help extraordinary philanthropists achieve outsized impact and experience more joy through their philanthropy. Led by former foundation CEOs, Boldly Go brings innovative strategies, practical approaches, trusted advice, and world-class services to philanthropic individuals, families, and foundations — minimizing unnecessary process, and powering their ability to solve social issues and address inequities.

  • English Sall is a data enthusiast and researcher at heart. In 2019, English received her PhD in Industrial Organizational Psychology (IOP) from North Carolina State University, where her research specializes in Humanitarian Work Psychology with a particular focus on how IOP can be applied to cross-cultural leadership and work-force development within informal economies. Throughout her undergraduate and graduate career English has gained diverse experience designing research projects and utilizing applied analytics in the space of Humanitarian Work Psychology.

  • Since 2002, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation has supported more than 200 organizations, collectively impacting 300 million lives through a novel funding and support strategy. DRK supports early stage, high impact social enterprises solving the world's biggest and most pressing social and environmental problems. To date, DRK has raised over $200 million of capital and deployed more than $110 million to find, fund and support more than 200 social enterprises around the globe.

  • The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project advances and invests in the health, education, and safety of young people living in Southern Africa. We do this by

    1. Building long-term partnerships with community-based organizations working directly with young people and communities on transformational and sustainable change.

    2. Providing college scholarships to exceptional young changemakers in South Africa.

    3. Using CTAOP’s voice and network to advocate for and drive support to community-led solutions

  • Virgin Unite was founded in 2004 as the independent non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group - uniting people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world.

    Virgin Unite's vision is for a world where all people and our planet thrive – and the team is on a mission to achieve this through catalysing radical collaboration to challenge the unacceptable. Since launch, together with some great partners, Virgin Unite has inspired and incubated a number of wonderful collaborations – like The Elders, The B Team, Unite BVI, 100% Human at Work and the Carbon War Room (merged with RMI). We believe that by working together we can turn challenges into opportunities, allowing us to always push boundaries to make business and the world better.

  • In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all. The Skoll Foundation catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.