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Overview
Jeff Grossberg has supported the success of more than 75 enterprises through strategic, financial and organizational development. He works with a diverse group of projects, bringing a bottom-line focus to accomplishing social good.
Guidestone’s clients include non-profit organizations, businesses, entrepreneurs and collaborations in numerous realms, including sustainability, philanthropy, new media, community development, educational reform, integral health, peace-making, and new models of business. They represent a range from innovative ideas and start-up ventures to some of the leading organizations in the world.
Jeff partners closely with key participants, helping clarify visions and build aligned leadership and highly functioning teams that foster individual initiative in a collaborative environment. He assists in creating strategic and business plans that navigate uncertainty to make better decisions. Jeff brings to each venture a focus on authentic leadership that includes personal as well as organizational development.
Jeff’s work often involves actively facilitating strategic alliances. As well, he coaches executives, individuals and teams, both as independent projects and as part of broader organizational change efforts. He also specializes in and excels at fundraising, having raised more than 100 million dollars, providing him with a significant network of major donors and foundations.
A pathfinder and problem-solver, Mr. Grossberg has spent decades facilitating the synergy between excellence in execution with integrity and impact of outcomes.
Background
Jeff has honed his skills through such diverse endeavors as CEO of several fifty-plus-million dollar enterprises, living in a spiritual community and in an ecovillage, and raising millions of dollars for numerous social change enterprises. Jeff has been the Executive Director of the Omega Institute, the Waldorf Alliance Foundation, the Achievable Foundation, and the Children’s Media Resources, as well as the Director of Development for the Girl Scouts. He has long been deeply involved in innovative social entrepreneurship as a means of working with the world as it is to create a world as we want it to be.
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Partial Client List
- Strategic and financial development for the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development, a major bi-partisan effort to transform international relations by helping Civil Society Organizations support locally led, workable, moderate alternatives to counter radical perspectives
- Strategic and business planning for Inspired Legacies, working to generate billions of dollars among progressive donors, organizations, financial institutions and advisors
- Strategic and financial development for Reuniting America, a transpartisan project, involving national leaders, to create common ground between the often-divisive political agendas in America
- Founder of The Bridge Philanthropic Advisors, providing major donors with access to leading advisors in numerous fields promoting social good to help guide their giving to be more values-aligned and strategic
- Strategic and financial development for Global Response, which promotes grass-roots sustainability efforts worldwide
- Financial development for the Mind & Life Institute, which creates dialogues and research collaborations between modern science and contemplative traditions
- Strategic, organizational and financial development for the Global Leadership Network
- Strategic coordination of educational transformation efforts for The Impact Foundation and Reimagine Education
- Strategic development for the Institute of Noetic Sciences
- Strategic development for the Organic Center for Education and Promotion
- Strategic development for socially oriented venture capital funds – Greenmont Capital Partners (natural products industry) and Boulder Sustainable Partners (“green real-estate”)
- Financial development for the Earth Council Alliance, a worldwide organization working to implement the Earth Charter and UN directed initiatives to develop a sustainable future
- Strategic and financial development for Self Design Learning, a network of families and learning consultants focused on children learning personal fulfillment and excellence.
- Strategic planning for Growing Bridges, an international youth leadership development program integrating somatic, social, intellectual and spiritual approaches
- Strategic development and business planning for Transforming How the World Works with Money, a program of the Rudolf Steiner Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, and the Tides Foundation
- Strategic and financial development for Rainmaker Institute, cooperating non-profit and for-profit organizations, developing sustainably built time-share resort and an Indigenous support network
- Strategic and financial development for PassageWorks Institute, which promotes social and emotional learning
- Strategic and financial development for TSA Farm, a 25-year old land trust and largest CSA in Colorado
- Participates in numerous gatherings exploring leadership, philanthropy and social innovation
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