The Bridgespan Group Inc

Programs: Strategy advising services: the bridgespan group is a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission-driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists 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, 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. In 2016 bridgespan provided support in over 75 engagements with over 55 organizations, foundations, and philanthropists.

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 2016, bridgespan advanced knowledge in the field through a range of publications and other activities including 18 major articles, 21 short articles, 44 blogs, and 5 op-eds. Bridgespan partners and managers contributed articles to stanford social innovation review (ssir) as well as research to the atlantic. Com and bain. Com. Highlights include: "transforming schools: how distributed leadership can create more high-performing schools" by betsy doyle, chris bierly, and abigail smith, january 14, 2016, bain. Com "how to bet big on the american dream" by debby bielak, devin murphy, and jim shelton, may 5, 2016, theatlantic. Com "pay-what-it-takes philanthropy" by jeri eckhart queenan, michael etzel, and sridhar prasad, summer 2016, stanford social innovation review (magazine)"community cure for health care" by taz hussein and mariah collins, july 21, 2016, ssir. Org"hidden talent: how smart companies are tapping into unemployed youth" by willa seldon, katie smith milway, simon morfit, and brian bills, september 8, 2016, ssir. Org "selling social change," by taz hussein and matt plummer, winter 2017, stanford social innovation review (magazine)a number of white papers published on bridgespan. Org sought to engage our audience on topics such as leadership, funding strategy, and economic mobility, to name a few. "network transformation: can big nonprofits achieve big results? " by kelly campbell, shazeen virani, and jess lanney, march 3, 2016, bridgespan. Org"helping nonprofit networks strengthen their fundraising effectiveness" by mark mckeag and andrew flamang, march 10, 2016, bridgespan. Org"share-of-wallet analysis how-to guide" by mark mckeag and andrew flamang, march 10, 2016, bridgespan. Org"what ambitious donors can learn from the atlantic philanthropies' experience making big bets" by alison powell, judy huang, william foster, michelle boyd, and lyell sakaue, october 18, 2016, bridgespan. Org"smart funding to close the leadership development deficit" by libbie landles-cobb, kirk kramer, and betsy doyle, november 28, 2016, bridgespan. Org"'billion dollar bets' to create economic opportunity for every american" by debby bielak, devin murphy, and jim shelton, may 5, 2016, bridgespan. Org. We published six concept papers to explore in detail specific investments philanthropists can make to help solve the issues we surfaced in our research for "'billion dollar bets' to create economic opportunities for every american" "'billion dollar bets' to increase early childhood development" by rose martin, devin murphy, and debby bielak, july 12, 2016, bridgespan. Org"'billion dollar bets' to reduce unintended pregnancies" by michelle boyd, debby bielak, and devin murphy, august 2, 2016, bridgespan. Org"'billion dollar bets' to improve the performance of social service programs" by michaela ross, reilly kiernan, debby bielak, and devin murphy, august 8, 2016, bridgespan. Org"'billion dollar bets' to establish pathways to careers" by michaela ross, reilly kiernan, devin murphy, and debby bielak, september 7, 2016, bridgespan. Org"'billion dollar bets' to reduce concentrated poverty" by michelle boyd, devin murphy, and debby bielak, september 27, 2016, bridgespan. Org"'billion dollar bets' to decrease over-criminalization" by rose martin, devin murphy, and debby bielak, october 12, 2016, bridgespan. Orgin 2016, bridgespan partnered with stanford social innovation review (ssir) to create an online series or "insight center" to bring in different points of view about our ssir article, "pay-what-it-takes philanthropy" in an up-for-debate series. The series included eight articles by noted sector leaders as well as our contribution "pushback, new thinking, and next steps," by jeri eckhart queenan and michael etzel, june 29, 2016. Subscriptions to bridgespan's newsletters the bridgespan knowledge letter, leadersmatter, and alerts have reached a combined total of over 62,700 at the end of 2016. Members of bridgespan also participated in and/or spoke at 78 conferences and meetings during 2016.

advancing philanthropy: philanthropy is a critical enabler of impact in the sector. We have had important opportunities to work with philanthropists and foundations on their social change strategies as well as with grantees in philanthropy portfolios. In 2016, 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. 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.

leadership: bridgespan collaborates with social sector leaders to strengthen the flow of talent into and within the social sector and to support the development of outstanding mission-driven leaders. We help them to develop leadership skills through our powerful program leading for impact, a two-year consulting and capacity building program for nonprofit executive teams (116 organizations, 668 participants in 2016). We also provide nonprofit leaders with high-impact career opportunities through our nonprofit job board (in 2016 the bridgespan job board hosted 2,846 jobs and board of director postings) and strengthen organizational and individual performance through insight and best practice sharing across networks of individuals and organizations.