Anne Marie Burgoyne
Bio
Anne Marie Burgoyne is responsible for identifying and supporting Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneurs and for building our learning community.
Before joining Draper Richards Kaplan, Anne Marie was the Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy of the Golden Gate where she undertook a successful financial and operational turn-around and organizational merger. Prior, Anne Marie was a Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) Farber Fellow at Community Gatepath, a non-profit that provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities. Before entering the non-profit arena, Anne Marie was the Vice President of Service at Digital Impact, a publicly-traded email marketing company, and an Associate at Robertson Stephens, where she did investment banking with emerging market clients.
Currently Anne Marie serves on the boards of Agora Partnerships, Equal Opportunity Schools, Global Citizen Year, Mission Continues, Welcoming America and Wild4Life. She previously served on the boards of Build Change, Genocide Intervention Network (now United to End Genocide), Grassroot Soccer, Little Kids Rock, LivingGoods, One Acre Fund, RefugePoint (formerly Mapendo International), Spark and Vision Spring (formerly Scojo Foundation).
She is on the advisory councils of IDEO.org, Net Impact, the Global Social Venture Competition and Photo Philanthropy and enjoys collaboration with Santa Clara University's Global Social Benefit Incubator and Social Venture Partners. She is a judge for the Manhattan Institute Social Entrepreneur Award and the Social Venture Network Innovation Awards program. Anne Marie has written about dashboards and the use of metrics by early-stage organizations, and has had pieces published by Stanford Social Innovation Review and in blogs by Good Magazine and Sasha Dichter.
Anne Marie received her Master of Business Administration and Public Management Program certificate from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and was selected by her peers as the recipient of the Ernest C. Arbuckle Award. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, respectively.
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Non-profits are constantly battling funders who think like buyers, versus builders (or buyers, versus investors), as so many grants are restricted by time, program or geography. Bornstein shares the success of George Overholser and Craig Reigel at Nonprofit Finance Fund to enable non-profits like College Summit (when...In Reference To:
For Ambitious Nonprofits, Capital to Grow - NYTimes.com
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I think that it is always interesting when folks speak from their gut. These videos were created to enable successful social sector professionals to share their stories and observations without hype and marketing patina. They are fun and interesting.In Reference To:
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One of our goals at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is to help grantees find sustainable long-term business/revenue models -- and this is a great primer for that dialog. There is a temptation, I think, in small organizations that are constantly plagued by fear of limited cash, to hedge bets and raise money in...In Reference To:
From Small to Scale: Three Trade-offs for Smaller Nonprofits Trying to Get Big - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.
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Everyone knows that entrepreneurial organizations are all about the people who work there. Great organizations start with a great leader, but, to really thrive, every person on the team matters, especially in the early years. I appreciated the ideas on this list -- they are a bit irreverent -- but very much capture...In Reference To:
Recruiting: 8 Qualities Your Best Employees Should Have | Inc.com
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I think that this article will become a classic. Since I was exposed to it last year, I have sent it to at least a dozen people since, as folks might know, good ideas and strong evidence don't always win the day when social change is not linear and is related to transformation of systems, hearts and minds, and...In Reference To:
The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy | Stanford Social Innovation Review
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I think that this piece is great. First, since talk of impact and scale are both top of mind for lots of people, it provides a common language for thinking about opportunities and key gating items related to scale. Second, it highlights the value of both the income statement (highlighting that a surplus builds net...In Reference To:
Preparing to Scale Impact: Assessing Nonprofit Financial Readiness on Vimeo
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There is so much uncertainty about how to engage with social media -- what tools to use, what to message, how much to spend on these activities, who to target, who to task with outreach. With simplicity, but also depth, this article is a great primer to get started. Clearly, getting your message out there is...In Reference To:
Tweeting for a Better World
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This is interesting for fund seekers because it is a good reminder of how to engage funders in getting to know your organization and its program in authentic ways -- by offering opportunities to see your work in action and impact. It is a powerful reminder to grant makers about getting close enough to the field to find...In Reference To:
Widespread Empathy - Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)
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For a long time there has been debate between philanthropic giving and impact investing, trying to signal which is better and/or the right vehicle for any given opportunity. This piece helps to illustrate that there is a time for various kinds of investing as an organization evolves through various stages -- blueprint,...In Reference To: