Bridgespan Group

Strategy advising services: The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission-driven leaders, organizations, philanthropists and impact investors to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve The quality of life for those in need. We are passionate about helping to find solutions to ensure equal opportunity and core human and civil rights. To achieve these objectives, we concentrate our efforts on four broad fields: education; children, youth, and families; public health; and global strategy development.our services include strategy and philanthropy consulting and advising, leadership development, and developing and sharing insights - all with The goal of scaling social impact. What we learn from collaborating closely with social sector leaders, we share broadly to advance social change.

Advancing philanthropy: philanthropy is a critical enabler of impact in The sector. We have had important opportunities to work with philanthropists, foundations and impact investors on their social change strategies as well as with grantees in philanthropy portfolios. In 2018, we were fortunate to collaborate with several ambitious philanthropists as well as institutional philanthropies searching for effective ways to achieve large-scale impact with their giving and with impact investors that seek significant social return on their investments. A core objective of Bridgespan has always been to bridge The visions of impact-seeking philanthropists with The on-the-ground work of nonprofit leaders.

Developing and sharing insights: Bridgespan collaborates with a broad range of social sector leaders to develop and share ideas, tools, and insights that can accelerate social impact. In 2018, Bridgespan advanced knowledge in The field through a range of publications and other activities including 9 major articles, 13 short articles, 27 blogs, 8 case studies, and 4 op-eds. Bridgespan partners and managers contributed articles to stanford social innovation review (ssir), The chronicle of philanthropy, and harvard business review. Highlights include: "making founder successions work," jari tuomala, donald yeh, and katie smith milway, stanford social innovation review and ssir.org, february 15, 2018. "when philanthropy meets advocacy," susan wolf ditkoff and patrick guerriero, ssir.org, may 19, 2018. "philanthropy bets big on sustainable development goals," kim ogden, sridhar prasad, and roger thompson, ssir.org, september 18, 2018 "how to create better nonprofit executive teams," libbie landles-cobb, henry barmeier, and kirk kramer, ssir.org, october 17, ...