National Executive Director, The GreenLight Fund
Margaret Hall co-founded the GreenLight Fund in Boston in 2003 with venture capitalist John Simon. The GreenLight Fund works at the intersection of community need and social innovation in our five cities: Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area. GreenLight helps transform the lives of children youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to: 1) Identify critical needs, 2) Import innovative, high-performing programs that can have a significant, measurable impact, and 3) Galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the new site. Across the country, GreenLight is supporting 17 organizations that will reach 60,000 children, youth and families in our cities this year with proven approaches to making a measurable impact on the needs that matter most.
Before co-founding the GreenLight Fund, Margaret was a Fellow at the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and earlier served as Associate Director of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, where she launched the public policy program.
Margaret earned an M.P.A. at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. from the University of Georgia.