Anonymous ID: 74f65c Sept. 28, 2020, 5:06 p.m. No.10828335   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8675 >>8976 >>9133 >>9223

Bridgespan Group: Mitt Romney's offshoot to "consult" for charities…Bain & Co at it again influencing society this time through nonprofits

 

Bridgespan is an independent nonprofit focused on helping philanthropists and nonprofit leaders achieve breakthrough results through providing philanthropic advising and management consulting services to nonprofits and philanthropists.

 

Bridgespan was launched in 1999 by Thomas Tierney, formerly Managing Director of Bain & Company, professor Jeffrey Bradach, from Harvard Business School, and Paul Carttar, formerly a vice president at Bain & Company.

 

Bridgespan grew from a desire by Bain & Company to expand their support of nonprofits. Bain provided Bridgespan with a one million dollar grant for the first three years, in addition to administrative support and several loaned employees ("externs"). The organization was also initially supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies.

 

Bridgespan advises clients against spreading donations too thinly so "that they have no real impact."

 

Today the Bridgespan is funded by many well-known organizations. In 2016 as per Bridgespan's website, the following organizations funded the nonprofit: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bain & Company, The Fidelity Foundation, Omidyar Network, and The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.

 

Former Omidyar Network Managing Director Matt Bannick is one of the two Bridgespan Fellows for 2020.

 

Some of Bridgespan's clients are below. Organizations denoted with an asterisk are also funders of Bridgespan.

 

>Philanthropy consulting

Atlantic Philanthropies*

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation*

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

CDC Foundation

Children's Investment Fund Foundation

Ford Foundation

Goldman Sachs Foundation

Omidyar Network*

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation

Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation

United Nations Foundation

The William and Flora Hewitt Foundation*

 

>Strategy consulting

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Boys & Girls Club of America

Center for Community Change

The Children's Aid Society

Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership

National Geographic Society

Nature Conservancy

Planned Parenthood Foundation of America

Save The Children

United Nations Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation

World Vision International

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgespan_Group

https://www.bridgespan.org/about-us/team-members/thomas-j-tierney

https://www.bridgespan.org/about-us/our-clients

https://www.bridgespan.org/about-us/our-funders