Kelly Greenwood
As a Principal of the Portfolio Team, Kelly Greenwood manages a variety of key relationships with funded social entrepreneurs, domain experts, policy makers, corporate partners and co-funders. Kelly develops and structures funding opportunities to drive large scale change in the focus areas of the foundation.
Her career has included a combination of both for-profit and nonprofit experience. Kelly joined Skoll from the San Francisco office of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm. There, she worked with various foundations and nonprofits on issues such as overall strategy, performance measurement, and scenario planning, as well as on internal knowledge initiatives. Kelly also served as a co-facilitator of the Diversity Dialogues, a forum intended to build community and inclusion within Bridgespan through personal sharing.
In addition, she has done strategy, process, and operations consulting at A.T. Kearney and Accenture in a variety of industries, with an emphasis on health care and retail. This included two pro bono strategy projects, one in the UAE with Dubai Cares and another with the Women’s Initiative for Self Employment. Kelly has also spent time in Vietnam working with a microfinance organization and served on the board of About-Face, a nonprofit that equips women and girls with the tools to understand and resist harmful media messages. As a REDF Farber Intern, she worked on the national expansion plan for Juma Ventures, a youth-related social enterprise in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kelly started her career as an English teacher in rural Costa Rica and then with two women’s issues nonprofits, one in London and one in her hometown of Washington, D.C.
Kelly graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Duke University with a BA in Psychology and Spanish and a minor in Women’s Studies. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, where she was a leader of the Social Impact Club.