One8 Foundation
Vanessa Lipschitz is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in education and consulting. Since September 2014, Vanessa has held multiple leadership roles at One8 Foundation, including Vice President for Education, Director of Education, Senior Portfolio Manager, and Portfolio Manager for Education. Prior to this, Vanessa worked at The Boston Consulting Group from October 2011 to July 2014 as a Project Leader and Consultant, managing project teams focused on strategy development and organizational design across various sectors, with a strong emphasis on retail, public sector, and nonprofit clients. Earlier experience includes serving as a Senior Associate at Technical Development Corporation, where Vanessa coordinated consulting teams for nonprofit clients, and as an Analyst at Rhode Island Kids Count, leading data analysis in education and child care. Vanessa holds a Master in Public Policy and an MBA from Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, respectively, as well as an AB in Economics and Public Policy from Brown University.
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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.