Social Impact Strategist & Philanthropy Advisor; Co-Founder of Open Impact; Author of "Forces for Good"
Heather McLeod Grant Biography
Heather McLeod Grant is a donor advisor, author, and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of leadership in social impact. Grant has advised nonprofits, foundations, and donors on scaling impact, with a focus on strategy formation, organizational capacity building, leadership development, and networks for social change. She has been recognized among the 25 most influential Bay Area leaders in San Francisco magazine.
Grant began her career as an Echoing Green Fellow and co-founder of Who Cares magazine. She later worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co., led Monitor Institute's nonprofit practice, and co-founded Open Impact. Grant has served as a venture partner with the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, designed and managed the cross-sector New Leadership Network, and served on more than 10 nonprofit boards. She has advised the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Grant co-founded Open Impact, a national women-owned philanthropy advising firm in Silicon Valley, where she helped foundations and families direct more than $10 billion to philanthropic causes. She works with high-net-worth women to increase giving for climate, democracy, and women and girls. Grant divides her time between Silicon Valley and England, where she is a Better Futures Fellow at Cambridge University.
Grant is co-author of the book "Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits" and has contributed to publications and reports including "The Giving Code," "The Giving Journey," "Pioneers in Justice," "The New Normal," "Building Capacity for Sustained Collaboration," and "Leading Systems Change." "Forces for Good" was named a Top Ten Book of the Year by The Economist. Her work has appeared in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fast Company, and The Washington Post.
Grant has spoken at social sector conferences, delivered more than 150 keynote addresses, taught a Stanford course on nonprofit management, lectured at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and led workshops at Esalen and 1440 Foundation. At Cambridge, she explores how philanthropy might change if guided by feminine values, contrasting with scalable impact models in venture philanthropy. Grant continues to influence how individuals, institutions, and networks approach social change and philanthropy.
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