One8 Foundation
Joanna Jacobson is an accomplished leader with extensive experience in philanthropy and corporate management. Currently serving as President and Trustee of One8 Foundation since January 2011, Joanna oversees grant-making and strategic initiatives aimed at supporting impactful leaders. Previously, Joanna co-founded and managed Strategic Grant Partners from 2002 to 2020, facilitating a coalition of philanthropists in providing strategic support to grantees. Joanna's corporate leadership experience includes roles as President of Keds, where significant revenue and profitability growth were achieved, and as SVP of Marketing and Product Development at Converse, contributing to a remarkable turnaround of the company. Joanna's early career includes positions at Colgate-Palmolive and Sperry Topsider, complemented by an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Affairs from the University of Pennsylvania.
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One8 Foundation
The One8 Foundation invests in the following impact areas: - Education: Excellent education for students in a rapidly changing world. - Jewish Community: Building vibrant Jewish communities of meaning and purpose. - Israel: Supporting a thriving and democratic Jewish State of Israel. - Community Giving: Vital local support to those in need. Our foundation does not consider unsolicited grant proposals. We seek non-profit organizations whose ideas and goals align with the foundation’s priorities and have demonstrated effective performance. What Is Important To Us: - Compelling Ideas: We support ambitious ideas with strong potential of achieving outsized results and scale those with demonstrated effectiveness that can be sustained. - Highly effective leaders: Great ideas are impotent without high-quality leadership. We fund talented leaders and teams with a growth mindset who are committed to excellence in their work. - Implementation for continuous improvement and quality results: While there has been no shortage of good ideas, there has been a dearth of high-quality implementation and ongoing accountability for results. We work with teams that have dogged execution. - Measurement and evaluation: We invest in initiatives where outputs and outcomes are measured and data is used to achieve continual improvement and results. - Long term partnership and support: We are active partners, staffed to provide some of our grantees with strategic support. We work side-by-side to develop detailed strategy and implementation plans when needed and provide ongoing advice and block and tackle support.