This panel will focus on these questions, with an emphasis on how high-impact nonprofit leaders and philanthropic organizations can better leverage financial expertise in pursuit of broader impact. The session will feature Andrea Levere SOM’83, Paul Bradley, and Corey Baron in a discussion of “enterprise-level capital” as a means of financing nonprofit organizations in a way that builds, rather than detracts from, organizational capacity and impact. The recently published “Blueprint for Enterprise Capital” captures these lessons while exploring their impact on organizations like ROC USA.
Andrea Levere SOM’83, President Emerita of Prosperity Now and Executive Fellow at Yale SOM, has spent her career working for, financing, leading, and advising nonprofit organizations in pursuit of the mission of building financial security and wealth for low-income households and households of color. Paul Bradley, President and Founder of ROC USA, pioneered the sector-defining strategy of resident ownership of manufactured home communities and is now using the organization’s financial strength and credibility to tap private markets to increase lending volumes and improve margins. Corey Baron is a 2nd Year MBA student at SOM who previously worked in philanthropy and economic development, and serves as a research assistant for Andrea’s work to promote enterprise capital.
This event is co-hosted by the Program on Social Enterprise, Economic Development Club, Net Impact Club, and the Yale Philanthropy Conference at the Yale School of Management.