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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Charity space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Charles Best
Founder & CEO of DonorsChoose
Charles Best is the Founder & CEO at DonorsChoose.
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About DonorsChoose: DonorsChoose is a nonprofit classroom funding site for public school teachers.
Shawn Melamed
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral
Shawn Melamed is a serial fintech entrepreneur that founded Spiral. He is the former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. He also founded software company Correlix, which was acquired by TSA, and led StrikeNet to its M&A with TMX Group.
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About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
Scott Harrison
Founder & CEO of charity: water
Harrison was born an only child in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Charles and Joan Harrison. His family relocated and he was raised in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. When Harrison was four years old, his mother was exposed to carbon monoxide from a cracked furnace installed in their new energy efficient home. His mother’s immune system was destroyed and she became an invalid. As a result, Harrison grew up taking care of his mother and the household. He credits his family’s deep Christian faith for giving them hope that one day his mother would be healed. At age 18, Harrison left home for New York City and enrolled at New York University (NYU). He graduated from NYU with a bachelor’s degree in communications in 1998. Harrison admits he was not a diligent student, and began working as a nightclub and party promoter in Manhattan. He spent the next 10 years throwing lavish parties for the likes of MTV, VH1, Bacardi and Elle. Harrison describes this as a time when he was “chasing after models,” mingling with the New York City elite and indulging in illicit drugs including cocaine and ecstasy. When he was 28, Harrison had a “crisis of conscience” during a vacation in Uruguay. Harrison had an epiphany about his job and life: “I was selling selfishness and decadence.” He recalled feeling like “the most selfish, sycophantic and miserable human being” and “the worst person I knew.” In August 2004, Harrison quit his job and volunteered as a photojournalist for the Christian charity Mercy Ships, which operates a fleet of hospital ships offering free healthcare. He served aboard the Mercy Ship Anastasis in West Africa, taking over 60,000 photos in 13 months. While on his first mission trip with Mercy Ships, Harrison received word that his mother was “miraculously healed” of her illness. Returning home from Africa in the fall of 2006, he started charity: water, which in just more than 6 years has raised over $95 million, and funded 8,000+ water projects in 20 countries that provide acces to clean drinking water for 3.2 million people. www.charitywater.org
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About 1% of Nothing, charity: water: charity: water is a non-profit organization that supplies clean and safe drinking water to developing nations.

Matt Pohlson
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Omaze
Matthew Pohlson is Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Omaze.
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About Omaze: Omaze is an online fundraising platform that offers once-in-a-lifetime experiences and prizes to support nonprofits around the world.

Alex Groth
CEO & Co-founder of Tab for a Cause
Alex Groth is Cofounder and CEO of Gladly, adtech that’s transforming the Internet experience by improving how online advertising is done. Through its core services, Tab for a Cause and Goodblock, Gladly’s mission is to give users a choice in the ads they view, while protecting their privacy and making sure every ad serves a worthy purpose.
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About Gladly, Tab for a Cause: Save the world, one tab at a time.
Kanika Bahl
Chief Executive Officer of Evidence Action
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About Evidence Action: Evidence Action reducing poverty and spurring growth in developing countries.

Julie Cordua
CEO of Thorn
As CEO, Julie leads Thorn’s efforts to bring the best minds in technology to bear to address the rise in technology-facilitated exploitation. Julie has spent more than ten years leading change at established firms and helping new organizations create their brands. She previously led marketing and communications for (RED), working with brand partners to generate more than $160 million to fight AIDS in Africa and, prior to that, spent a decade running global marketing efforts for Motorola and wireless start-up HELIO.
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About Thorn: Thorn, digital defenders of children, drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.

Mark Russo
Founder and Chairman,CEO of Treasure Investments Corporation
Mark Russo has been heavily involved in the fine art market for the past 25 years dealing with Fortune 500 CEOs, physicians, celebrities, museums, and thousands of successful and influential collectors. Mark Russo is an expert in sales communication, business management, and high-quality art. Working high-end trade shows, investment conferences and art exhibitions, Mark Russo has generated over $100 million in sales of fine art during his career. Mark Russo both directs and coordinates the sales effort of TIC and is responsible for sales strategy, recruitment, training, budgeting, and promotions. Mark Russo is responsible for the development of the highly successful and innovative sales model that has resulted in the unprecedented growth of the ‘Charitable Division’ at TIC.
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About Treasure Investments Corporation: Business providing rare and valuable assets for charitable fundraisers
Peter Colbert
Founder & CEO of INAMO
Started my career as a junior software engineer at Edward Lumley and Sons & then moved up to Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell. Had a long stint in sports management before founding Australia’s first online sports registration and ticketing portal, SportsDNA, in 2000. Unfortunately the dot com bust followed soon after and there was no funding available in the industry to continue. After a sabbatical, I founded Travellersxpress that went on to become one of Australia’s largest inbound working holiday companies. In 2010, Travellersxpress launched the industry’s first Visa Prepaid Travel Card in conjunction with Macquarie Bank. Having exited Travellersxpress and another sabbatical, I started The Card Group in 2013, which provided white label prepaid cards and reward solutions to sporting teams. I then went on to start INAMO and collaborated with Visa to pilot WaveShades (Pay-by-Sunglasses) at all 5 Fringe Music Festivals throughout Australia. Visa US demonstrated WaveShades at SXSW. Relocated to Santa Monica, California where we piloted the first contactless wearable in the U.S that resulted in us partnering with VISA. We’re now in stealth to prepare to launch in 2021.
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About INAMO, The Card Group Pty Ltd: INAMO’s video-messaging payment platform enables companies to reward their employees & clients while reinforcing their brand & core message.

Alaina Percival
CEO & Board Chair of Women Who Code
Alaina Percival spent the first three years of her career working at the PUMA headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany as the International Niche Product Manager. Upon completion of her MBA, Percival accepted a Brand Marketing Manager position for Nfinity, a performance footwear company, where she led the rollout of the first women specific volleyball and basketball shoes. Her migration to the technical sector took place in 2010 and her tech industry experience includes heading up developer outreach at Riviera Partners in addition to working as the Director of Marketing for Snip.it – a start-up which was eventually acquired by Yahoo! Today, Percival is an Advisor for CodePath, the first mobile developer school for engineers that is free. She has been involved with Women Who Code since 2011 and drives the organization’s strategic goals, partnerships, and sponsorships. Of note, she was invited to speak at the Belfast Technology Conference in April of this year, which brought together business leaders and politicians from Belfast, Europe, and the United States to discuss emerging technologies and best technology industry practices. Percival has also been a featured speaker at She Talks Forum discussing Women In Tech, The O’Reilly Fluent Conference discussing how to master the technologies driving the web, and has been interviewed by the Huffington Post and Women 2.0, a leading media brand, to share her expertise on best practices for female engineers to advance their careers. Percival lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband and is active in both the technology and education circles. She has traveled to more than 60 countries and speaks fluent German.
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About Women Who Code: Women Who Code is a global organization dedicated to inspiring women to pursue and excel in technology careers.
Charles Huang
Founder & CEO of PandaPay
Charles Huang is the Founder & CEO of PandaPay.io. Charles graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in Materials Science & Electrical Engineering. Upon graduation, Charles began working at big data company Palantir Technologies as a member of the Forward Deployed Engineering team. He left to pursue building VPI’s first product, Charitweet, a social fundraising platform that launched successful campaigns with Fidelity Charitable, Water.org, and Pantene. Charles spearheaded VPI’s pivot to PandaPay in 2015 and has overseen its operation for the past two years.
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About Charitweet, PandaPay: PandaPay builds payments infrastructure for social good.

John Cioe
Co-Founder & CEO of Rivals Media
John Cioe is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Rivals Media. He also founded INOV8 Media in 2014.
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About INOV8 Media, Rivals Media: Rivals Media is a fan engagement platform for live sports and entertainment events.
Joe Phoenix
CEO and Co-Founder of Givinga
Joe Phoenix is the Co-Founder and CEO at Givinga, Inc. He has 30 years experience in the global asset management industry in the US and overseas. Joe is a former Head of Global Institutional Management at Putnam Investments. Mr. Phoenix spreads the word about philantech, believing anyone can be a philanthropist, especially when they leverage all available resources. He received a master of business administration in Management at Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.
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About Givinga: Givinga is a provider of financial technology platform for employers.

Gabe Cooper
Founder & CEO of Virtuous Software
Gabe is the President and Founder of Brushfire Interactive and Virtuous Software. He is also the co-founder of Shotzoom Software. He has a true passion for creating market-defining products and helping organizations re-imagine how to reach their constituents through technology. After receiving his MBA from Arizona State University in 2002, Gabe moved into a technology leadership role at a large non-profit in Scottsdale, AZ. In 2006, Gabe became a founding member of Perk Software (later Brushfire and Shotzoom Software, in what the kids these days call a pivot) and went on to build a series of highly successful digital properties in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Gabe, his wife Farrah, and their five kids live in Gilbert, Arizona.
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About Brushfire Interactive, Virtuous Software: Virtuous Software is a customer relationship management software solution helping charities raise more money.
Domenic Graziosi
CEO of Relationship Science
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About Relationship Science: Relationship Science is a business development tool that provides influential people profiles.

Benjamin Yerxa
CEO of Foundation Fighting Blindness
Ben Yerxa is CEO at Foundation Fighting Blindness.
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About Foundation Fighting Blindness, Opus Genetics, Retinal Degeneration Fund: The Foundation intends to provide preventions, treatments & cures for people affected by entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.
Coppy Holzman
CEO and Co-founder, charitybuzz of Charitybuzz
Coppy is the CEO and co-founder of Boris & Horton. He founded Charitybuzz, the leading online charity auction site, which raised hundreds of millions of dollars in partnership with top celebrities and nonprofits all over the globe. He is considered an expert in upscale cause marketing. Prior to Charitybuzz he co-founded Webvan which pioneered online grocery ordering and delivery. He is President of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and is a member of the RFK Human Rights Leadership Council.
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About Boris & Horton, Charitybuzz: Charitybuzz is involved in raising funds for non-profit organizations by conducting online auctions with notable celebrities and brands.

Brett Hagler
CEO & Co-Founder of New Story Charity
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About Forbes Nonprofit Council, Hometeam Ventures, New Story Charity: New Story Charity are crowdfunding life-changing homes for families around the world.
Richard DiPilla
Founder & CEO of Global Goodwill Ambassadors
When I founded Global Goodwill Ambassadors years ago, I had no idea that it would become a beacon of light for so many good hearted people from around the world. Once discovered, I now realize that the value of human kindness is immeasurable.
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About Global Goodwill Ambassadors: Changing Real Lives Of Real People In Need Around The World.

Brooke Battle
CEO/Founder of Swell Fundraising
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About Swell Fundraising: Swell Fundraising provides event fundraising software solution to nonprofit organizations around the U.S.
Mariko Silver
President and CEO of Henry Luce Foundation
Mariko Silver is the president and CEO of the Henry Luce Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mariko was previously the president of Bennington College. She holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from UCLA; MSc, Science and Technology Policy from SPRU, University of Sussex (UK) and B.A., History from Yale University.
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About Henry Luce Foundation: Henry Luce Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides grantmaking programs to museums, colleges and universities, and more.
Cyrus David
Co-Founder and CEO of Starling
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About Starling: Enabling celebrities and influencers to engage their fans with charitable raffle campaigns.
Karissa Bodnar
Founder, CEO of Thrive Causemetics
Karissa Bodnar is the founder and CEO of Thrive Causemetics.
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About Thrive Causemetics: Thrive Causemetics offers cosmetics that are cruelty-free, vegan, and formulated with safe ingredients.

Thomas Tighe
President and CEO of Direct Relief
Thomas Tighe has served as President and CEO of Direct Relief, a nonprofit humanitarian medical organization, since October 2000. Direct Relief, established in Santa Barbara in 1948 and funded entirely with private support, provides medical material assistance to locally run health programs around the world and in the U.S. Since Tighe’s arrival, the organization has provided cash grants of more than $35 million and furnished more than $2.2 billion essential medicines, equipment, and supplies to support health services for low-income people in 88 developing countries and in all 50 U.S. states, where the organization conducts the country’s largest nonprofit charitable medicines program. During this tenure, Direct Relief has been named one of America’s Best 100 Charities by Worth magazine, has been rated by Forbes as being 99 percent efficient or better in fundraising since 2001, won the Peter F. Drucker Foundation’s award for Nonprofit Innovation, the ESRI President’s Award for GIS innovation, the Office of the Surgeon General’s National Leadership and PartnershipH Award, become the first U.S. nonprofit to obtain VAWD accreditation and be licensed to distribute Rx medications in all 50 U.S. states.
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About Direct Relief: Direct Relief is a humanitarian medical aid organization.

Benjamin Bush
CEO & Founder of 4ME4WE
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About 4ME4WE: Ad-Tech platform sitting at the intersection of Brands, Consumers, Charities.

Brittany Martin Graunke
Founder & CEO of Zealous Good
Brittany moved nine times across five countries before her family settled in Dallas. Brittany returned to the Midwest to study industrial engineering at Northwestern University. Before starting Zealous Good, she worked at Bain & Company as a management consultant and United Way of Metropolitan Chicago as the strategic engagement manager. She is passionate about people (which she credits to her nomadic childhood) and using engineering to make the world a better place. Brittany also loves spending time with her wonderful husband, Jerry, running with their dog April, and starting the occasional sporadic dance party.
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About Zealous Good: Zealous Good helps charities by providing: An online platform to solicit specific.

Lina Sergie Attar
Co-founder and CEO of Karam Foundation
Lina Sergie Attar is co-founder and CEO of Karam Foundation. She is a Syrian-American architect and writer. She studied architecture at the University of Aleppo and continued her graduate studies at the RISD and MIT. She co-founded Karam’s Innovative Education initiatives: Zeitouna, a creative therapy program for displaced Syrian children & the Karam Leadership Program, an entrepreneurship and technology program for displaced Syrian youth. She works on the Syrian border areas in southern Turkey biannually to run Karam’s programs and cultivate relief networks across Syria. Her articles and essays have been published in the NYT, Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, Politico and BBC. She has appeared on CNN, NBC News, BBC News, Huffington Post, NPR and other media outlets.
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About Karam Foundation: Karam Foundation are a non-profit organization on a mission to build a better future for Syria. Giving since 2007.
Nick Fitz
Co-founder & CEO of Momentum
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About Momentum: Momentum is a platform that enables users to make automatic donations that transform ordinary moments into opportunities.

Leo Ramirez
CEO and Co-Founder of Encast
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About Encast: Encast provides a cloud-based system inspiring high impact charitable giving by companies and individuals.

Ray Gary
CEO of iDonate
Ray’s passion is to build technology that’s effective and simple. He loves building products and companies around new and disruptive ideas and brainstorming with team members and clients to make complex things simple.
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About iDonate: IDonate is a developer of a fundraising software created to help nonprofits organization to better connect with donors.

David Hegarty
CEO & Executive Director of Hope For Youth Inc
David Hegarty joined Hope For Youth in 1982 and was appointed Executive Director in 1989. At the time of his appointment, Hope For Youth operated four group homes serving adolescent males with 28 staff and an operating budget of $750,000. Under his leadership, Hope For Youth has grown into a diverse, regional provider of residential care, foster care, preventive and out-patient programs. With over 140 staff and an operating budget of $10,500,000, Hope For Youth has developed a reputation for providing innovative, integrated services for troubled youth and families. Hegarty holds a Ph.D. in Community Psychology from Union Institute & University and is a New York State Licensed Marital and Family Therapist. David has served as a member or officer of the boards of directors of the New York State Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies and the Long Island Health and Welfare Council. In 2002 David was appointed by Suffolk County Executive Robert Gaffney to the county’s Substance Abuse Advisory Board. Given the scope of services which Hope For Youth provides to children, youth and families, David has been an invited to make presentations at various professional conferences on topics relating to child welfare, substance abuse and juvenile justice such as: Speaking Truth to Power: Advocacy Skills for Social Workers, Presentation with NYS Assemblyman Paul Harrenberg; Juvenile Justice Services and Substance Abuse Treatment: Integrating Services Across Systems, Presentation at the NYS Association of Substance Abuse Providers; Hiring The Best: Presentation at the Christian Child and Family Services Association; Collaboration- In The Best Interests of the Family: Panel Presentation, New York State Association of Substance Abuse Providers Conference; Troubled Youth Becoming Youth in Trouble: Panel Presentation, National Community Sentencing Association; Reducing Risk: Working with Juvenile Justice Involved Youth, Panel Presentation, NYS Association of Substance Abuse Providers Conference.
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About Hope For Youth Inc: Hope For Youth is a residential, foster care, preventive, and out-patient service provider to children, youth and families.

David Hegarty
CEO & Executive Director of Hope For Youth Inc
David Hegarty joined Hope For Youth in 1982 and was appointed Executive Director in 1989. At the time of his appointment, Hope For Youth operated four group homes serving adolescent males with 28 staff and an operating budget of $750,000. Under his leadership, Hope For Youth has grown into a diverse, regional provider of residential care, foster care, preventive and out-patient programs. With over 140 staff and an operating budget of $10,500,000, Hope For Youth has developed a reputation for providing innovative, integrated services for troubled youth and families. Hegarty holds a Ph.D. in Community Psychology from Union Institute & University and is a New York State Licensed Marital and Family Therapist. David has served as a member or officer of the boards of directors of the New York State Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies and the Long Island Health and Welfare Council. In 2002 David was appointed by Suffolk County Executive Robert Gaffney to the county’s Substance Abuse Advisory Board. Given the scope of services which Hope For Youth provides to children, youth and families, David has been an invited to make presentations at various professional conferences on topics relating to child welfare, substance abuse and juvenile justice such as: Speaking Truth to Power: Advocacy Skills for Social Workers, Presentation with NYS Assemblyman Paul Harrenberg; Juvenile Justice Services and Substance Abuse Treatment: Integrating Services Across Systems, Presentation at the NYS Association of Substance Abuse Providers; Hiring The Best: Presentation at the Christian Child and Family Services Association; Collaboration- In The Best Interests of the Family: Panel Presentation, New York State Association of Substance Abuse Providers Conference; Troubled Youth Becoming Youth in Trouble: Panel Presentation, National Community Sentencing Association; Reducing Risk: Working with Juvenile Justice Involved Youth, Panel Presentation, NYS Association of Substance Abuse Providers Conference.
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About Hope For Youth Inc: Hope For Youth is a residential, foster care, preventive, and out-patient service provider to children, youth and families.

Mike T. Brown
Founder & CEO of Win-Win
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About Win-Win: Win-Win is a gamified giving platform that offers fantasy sports-style tournaments hosted by NFL and NBA athletes.

Martin Fisher
Co Founder & CEO of KickStart
As a child in upstate New York, Martin Fisher often spent time in his family’s basement building things, taking things apart, and putting them back together. He wanted to understand how they worked – and how he could make them better. It’s a trait that has served him well as an inventor and social entrepreneur. Fisher was born in London and moved to the United States when he was eight years old. His father is an academic theoretical physicist, and his mother is a social entrepreneur who founded the Ithaca Festival – an annual three-day music, arts and dance festival in Ithaca, New York. Fisher earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1979, followed by a master’s and doctorate in mechanical design and theoretical and applied mechanics from Stanford University. While finishing his Ph.D., Fisher traveled to Peru to trek in the Andes and ponder his future. In South America he first encountered poverty in the developing world. He reflected on how the development of new technologies had advanced global societies and wondered if engineering could also play a critical role in solving global poverty. Answering this question became his life’s calling. After he returned to the United States, Fisher earned a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Kenya to study the appropriate technology movement and the relationship between technology and poverty. Based on the E.F. Schumacher book, Small Is Beautiful, the appropriate technology movement opined that small-scale, locally made, labor-intensive technologies could pull a poor rural village out of poverty. The appropriate technology movement ended in the mid-1980s, but studying its demise gave Fisher many important insights about how things could be made to work better. Fisher expected to be in Kenya for 10 months. He stayed for 17 years. After his Fulbright Scholarship ended, he spent the next five years working for ActionAid, a British non-profit organization. He developed new low-cost building technologies, constructed low-cost school buildings, established a large rural water program, created workshops to produce farm equipment, designed aids for the disabled, and trained youth and women’s groups to start businesses. During this time, Fisher met Nick Moon, his future business partner. Fisher and Moon became frustrated by the lack of sustainable impacts on poverty, and they began to study the root causes of these failures. Development agencies continuously spent large amounts of time and money to better poor communities, only to have the work they put in place deteriorate soon after their workers left. Fisher thought: How was it that well-intentioned and well-implemented projects could fail to create lasting change? Fisher and Moon’s inquiries led to the simple conclusion that just like anyone, the number one need of poor families in Africa is “a way to make more money,” and from this they developed a new model for fighting global poverty. In 1991, Fisher and Moon left ActionAid and co-founded ApproTEC, the non-profit that would become KickStart. By bringing together the entrepreneurial spirit of the poor, innovative tools and technologies, and the power of the marketplace, they developed a cost effective and sustainable way to help families lift themselves out of poverty. They started to design affordable moneymaking tools and mass-market them to the poor, who in turn bought the equipment and used it to establish highly profitable family businesses. Fisher started by designing an oil seed press and a press for making stabilized soil blocks. These and his other early designs have been used to create hundreds of profitable businesses. However, by 1997 he realized that because the vast majority of the poor in the world are small-scale farmers, irrigation technologies that enable farmers to move from subsistence to commercial irrigated farming could have the greatest impact on global poverty. With his team of designers, Fisher developed his first MoneyMaker Pump. Today more than 257,973 pumps have been sold. By 2001, ApproTEC had proved the power of its model and its designs, and Fisher returned to the United States to establish a small fundraising office in San Francisco. In 2005, the African and U.S. organizations were combined as a single U.S.-based non-profit social enterprise called KickStart. Fisher continues to design and invent in addition to his role as CEO of KickStart. He believes that design is most successful when approached collaboratively, and he continues to mentor and direct a team of designers and engineers in Kenya. He also works with designers in the United States, both from universities and renowned firms like IDEO. Fisher is an established lecturer who speaks at top engineering and business schools, as well as at major design, international development, and social enterprise-related conferences. Fisher has won numerous awards and recognition for his inventions and work as a social entrepreneur, including the IDEA Design Gold Medal, TIME Magazine’s 2003 European Hero award, 2005 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and the Schwab Foundation’s “2003 Social Entrepreneur of the Year” award. In 2008 he was named Engineer of the Year by Design News magazine. Also in 2008, he received the prestigious $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability” for his achievements in transforming the lives of hundreds of thousands of poor Africans though invention and innovation.
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About KickStart: KickStart’s mission is to lift millions of people in Africa out of poverty, quickly, cost-effectively and sustainably.

Aldo Alvarez
Founder and CEO of Aporta, Inc.
Aldo Alvarez is co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Aporta, a website that promotes online donations for non-profit organizations in Mexico. As CEO, he is responsible of the company’s vision, leadership, operations, and strategic development. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Alvarez was part of the private equity firms Palladium Equity Partners and Wyndham Global Partners where he evaluated investment opportunities in Mexico and Latin America. In 2006, he joined Bank of America in New York as an investment banker where he participated in the issuance of leveraged loans and high yield bonds that were used for the buyouts of Outback Steakhouse and Petco by private equity funds. Mr. Alvarez graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a finance degree and a minor in accounting. As a student, he held internships at UBS Investment Bank in New York, at Merrill Lynch Private Banking in Austin, Texas, at Vector Casa de Bolsa in Monterrey, Mexico, and in the Finance Department of Seminis Vegetable Seeds in Oxnard, California.
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About Aporta, Inc.: Aporta is an online donation portal that will allow individuals to donate money to more than 7,000 Mexican non-profit organizations.

Rebecca Masisak
CEO of TechSoup Global
Rebecca Masisak is the CEO of TechSoup Global, an award-winning nonprofit organization and social enterprise supporting social benefit organizations and initiatives in 121 countries. Since joining TechSoup Global in 2001, Ms. Masisak launched and charted the growth of the technology product donation program in the U.S. and subsequently led its global expansion. TechSoup Global has distributed 14.1 million software and hardware product donations from 100+ donors and technology providers and enabled organizations worldwide to save more than US$4.6 billion for direct services. She led the development of the TechSoup Global Network, currently comprised of 63 organizations that deliver programs in Africa, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition, Ms. Masisak managed TechSoup Global’s successful bid to receive the Council on Foundation’s formal endorsement to create NGOsource, an equivalency determination service that helps U.S. grantmakers streamline their international grantmaking process. Rapidly expanding its reach, NGOsource is currently active in 68 countries. Ms. Masisak speaks about social enterprise, global networks, and data as a resource for civil society. She was awarded the Full Circle Fund’s Full Impact Award in Technology in 2008. She co-leads the Social Enterprise Leadership Forum in the San Francisco Bay Area and is active on two boards: Telecentre.org Foundation and S.A.G.E. (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship). Ms. Masisak obtained her MBA from the Columbia University Business School.
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About TechSoup Global: TechSoup is a nonprofit organization connecting nonprofit, charity and public libraries with technological products and services.
Richard G. Stewart Jr.
CEO and Founder of Help Worldwide
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About Help Worldwide, Source Clearinghouse: Help Worldwide generates continuous charitable donations with everyday shopping.

Paresh Shah
Co-Founder| CEO of Glimpulse
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About Glimpulse: Glimpulse is a philanthropic organization that allows companies and individuals to engage in Social Responsibility acts.

Kurt Van Wagenen
Chairman, President & CEO of A Better Chance
Mr. Van Wagenen earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Mr. Van Wagenen serves on Boards of Directors as follows: FirstLight Fiber as Board Chair, INCOMPAS as Board Chair, A Better Chance, Pathways to College and the Gold NorCal Chapter of YPO. He is also a member of the School of Engineering Leadership Council for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About A Better Chance, FirstLight: A Better Chance has been opening the door to educational opportunities for thousands of young people of color in this nation.
Petr Myachin
CEO / Co-Founder of IThanks
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About IThanks: Ithanks is a website that allows people across the globe to send small tokens of gratification.

Bob Beitcher
CEO of MPTF
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About MPTF: MPTF has thrived for 90 years through dramatic changes in technology, industry structure, social and medical services, and economic cycles.

Cynthia Typaldos
CEO and Co-Founder of AdoptMeApp & SponsorMeApp powered by Kachingle
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About AdoptMeApp & SponsorMeApp powered by Kachingle: AdoptMeApp enables animal welfare organizations to increase adoptions & save more lives.

Deborah Deal-Blackwell
CEO of IX Power Foundation
Ms. Deal-Blackwell serves as the CEO of the IX Power Foundation. As the CEO of the five-state medical transportation charity Angel Flight Southeast, she resurrected the organization and doubled revenues and services in just one year. But her career did not begin in the nonprofit sector; initially she started in broadcasting. After leaving television, Deborah honed what would become her 25+ years of experience in public relations and marketing by serving a wide variety of clients in computer software, real estate development, consumer and business travel, and politics. Her clients are spread across the U.S., Asia, the Caribbean, and Russia. Deborah has served on the boards of countless non-profit, civic, cultural and industry-specific organizations. She is a co-founder of Hyperion Power Generation and was the firm’s first employee. Deborah was the top executive in Hyperion’s Washington, D.C. office and directed all interaction with Capitol Hill and federal agencies based in the city. Her degrees in journalism-public relations and radio-TV were earned at the University of Central Florida. She is an accredited public relations specialist (APR).
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About IX Power Clean Water, IX Power Foundation: IX Power was formed to integrate established engineering and recent technical innovations to provide baseload power.
Barb Royal
Founder and CEO of KidsCanGiveToo
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About KidsCanGiveToo: KidsCanGIveToo is an app that makes it easy for kids to share their birthday money with the charity of their choice.

Syd Dufton
President & CEO of WeWIN
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About WeWIN: WeWIN’s API platform connects retailers, brands, fans and causes through rewards and other in-app branding opportunities.

Charles Belle
Founder & CEO of Startup Policy Lab
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About Startup Policy Lab, Wildcard Incubator, Wildcard Incubator: SPL is a think tank solving problems at the intersection of technology & government by building products that support innovation.
Miriam Ackerman
Co-Founder and CEO of NetGiver
Miriam Ackerman currently works as Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer at NetGiver. She is also a Strategic Operations Officer at DNT BLNK. Ms. Ackerman graduated from Birkbeck, the University of London with a Master of Arts Management & Cultural Policy.
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About NetGiver: NetGiver develops a deposit-generating and loyalty-building application designed for credit unions and their members.

Sherry Lansing
Founder & CEO of The Sherry Lansing Foundation
Sherry Lansing is the Founder and has been the Chair of the Sherry Lansing Foundation, a philanthropic organization focusing on cancer research, health and education, since 2005. Sherry has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at QUALCOMM Incorporated since September 2006. From 1992 to 2005, Sherry was the Chair of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures where she oversaw the release of more than 200 films, including Academy Award® winners Forrest Gump, Braveheart and Titanic. From 1984 to 1990, Sherry operated her own production company, Lansing Productions, and co-founded Jaffe/Lansing Productions. In 1980, Sherry became the film industry’s first female to oversee all aspects of a studio’s motion picture production when she was appointed President of Production at 20th Century Fox. Sherry holds additional trustee, chair and advisory positions with the Friends of Cancer Research, the American Association of Cancer Research, the Carter Center and Stop Cancer, a non-profit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with Dr. Armand Hammer. Sherry is also a regent of the University of California and serves as Chair of the University Health Services Committee. Sherry has been a Member of the Board of Directors of RealD Inc. since May 2010 and was a Member of the Board of Directors of Dole Food Company, Inc. from October 2009 to November 2013. Sherry earned the 2004 Horatio Alger Humanitarian Award, the 2003 Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, a 2003 honorary doctorate in fine arts from the American Film Institute, the 1989 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Memorial Award and the 1982 Distinguished Community Service Award from Brandeis University. Sherry holds a B.S. degree in Speech, with minors in English and Mathematics, from Northwestern University in 1966.
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About The Sherry Lansing Foundation: The Sherry Lansing Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research, health, public education, and encore careers.
Ridgway H. White
President and CEO of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Ridgway H. White is the president and CEO of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
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About Charles Stewart Mott Foundation: Mott Foundation is a private philanthropy committed to supporting projects that promote a just, equitable, and sustainable society.

Arek Sokol
Founder and CEO of peercisely
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Ed Erenberg
CEO of Cheerity
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About Cheerity: Cheerity is social media awareness and fundraising for everyone. Join or start a #Cheer to respond to what’s happening in the world.

Dale Knoop
Manager, Founder & CEO of RAZ Mobile
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About RAZ Mobile: RAZ mobile creates mobile fundraising campaigns that allow nonprofits and causes to collect donations online or by mobile phone.

Dave Rowan
Chief Executive Officer of BLOCS
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About BLOCS, National Lacrosse League: BLOCS is an independent charitable organization supported by companies, firms, and foundations of all sizes.

Peter Lee
Co-founder & CEO of PlayCause
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About PlayCause: Athletes fundraise for causes through their in-game stats
Mike Vo
CEO of we2o
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About we2o: At we2o, we have created an innovative social philanthropy platform that allows employees to donate to charities seamlessly.
Van Benno
CEO of Ayedeals
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About Ayedeals: Charitable shopping and price comparison.
Van Benno
CEO of Ayedeals
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About Ayedeals: Charitable shopping and price comparison.

Alan Graham
Founder & CEO of Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Alan Graham is the founder and CEO of Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a social outreach nonprofit in Austin, Texas that provides food and clothing, and promotes dignity to homeless men and women in need. In the mid-1990s, Alan co-founded the Lynxs Group, which built the air cargo facility at Austin’s new airport, and went on to build similar facilities at airports around the country. He left the Lynxs Group in 1997 and managed Austin’s cargo port as the new airport was opening. Around the same time, the seed for the idea of Mobile Loaves & Fishes had been placed on Alan’s heart. He and four friends boldly answered God’s call to “love your neighbor” by delivering meals from the back of a green minivan. Today, with the support of more than 19,000 volunteers, Mobile Loaves & Fishes is the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless and working poor in Austin. In addition to growing its truck ministry, Mobile Loaves & Fishes has expanded its programs and services to include the development of Community First! Village, a 27-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for the disabled, chronically homeless in Central Texas.
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About Mobile Loaves & Fishes: Mobile Loaves & Fishes empowers communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.

Kim Hoedeman
Founder & CEO of Benevolent Enabler
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About Benevolent Enabler: Benevolent Enabler is a social impact technology to collect donations and data in the moment it matters.

Joshua Black
CEO of Videojuice
Joshua Black is CEO at Videojuice.
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About Videojuice: Videojuice is a social fundraising platform that helps its users crowdfund their favorite charity or personal causes.

Rony Delgarde
Founder/CEO of Global Paint for Charity
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About Global Paint for Charity: ♻️ Recycling Latex Paint from commercial businesses and residential households to beautify poor communities, change lives

Nadia Bodkin
President & CEO of EDSers United
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About EDSers United: EDSers United is a nonprofit organization operating as a public charity.