
Bennett Grassano
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Senior Director Institutional Partnerships at Resilia | Social Enterprise | AI4Good | Nonprofit Leadership | SaaS | Partnership Development | Data Science
Summary
Mission-driven leader of social enterprises that impact humanity, scale globally, and shape the future. With over 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology and social impact, I have been fortunate to play crucial roles in building innovative social enterprises that have crossed the billion dollar mark in social impact twice--first at TechSoup Global and then as Vice President of Strategic Development at Kiva.org. Most recently I served as Head of Social Impact for leading AI Talent Analytics Start-Up, SkyHive. I have a strong track record of developing complex multi-million dollar partnerships with leading philanthropies such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The MasterCard Foundation, Google.org, The Skoll Foundation, leading international teams, opening up new geographies and verticals. I enjoy building sustainable organizations and tackling hard global problems with smart passionate people. I am also a Board Member of Saha Global, a nonprofit dedicated to getting the cleanest water to the people hardest to reach.
Senior Director Institutional Partnerships
Resilia
1 Apr 2023 - Present
3yrs 4mos
San Francisco Bay Area
Powering the people that change the world, Resilia is a SaaS platform that enables nonprofits to increase capacity and funders to go beyond the grant with technical assistance, coaching, and capacity building support that makes the funder-nonprofit experience as transparent, effective, and equitable as possible.
Independent Social Enterprise Consultant
Self-employed
1 Mar 2020 - 30 Apr 2023
3yrs 1mo
San Francisco Bay Area
Mission-driven consultant and executive of social enterprises that impact humanity, scale globally, and shape the future. With over 20 years of experience in the trenches building social enterprises that deliver impact at scale, I have been fortunate to cross the billion dollar mark in social impact twice--first at TechSoup Global and then as head of Strategic Development at Kiva.org. Most recently I was Managing Director for the nonprofit arm of Samasource, Inc. My current focus is taking what I've learned to help social enterprises actualize their impact potential through organizational development, fundraising, strategy, program development, impact monitoring evaluation and learning, and business development. Mostly I enjoy tackling hard problems with smart passionate people at the intersection of impact and sustainable growth. I am also a Board Member, and Development Committee Chair of Saha Global.
Head of Social Impact
SkyHive
1 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
1yr
Silicon Valley, California, United States
SkyHive is fast growing B Corp that applies AI to over 16 terrabytes of real time labor market data per day to analyze a workforce at its most granular level. SkyHive harnesses this power to support individuals, companies, communities, and countries to automate skills extraction, benchmark to any slice of the labor market, predict highest value skills, and auto-match personalized training to reskill and upskill for the future of work. From emerging markets to rapidly changing developed markets, there isn't a more powerful tool to build and future-proof livelihoods for the 21st Century. In my role as SkyHive's first Head of Social Impact, I will be leading the charge to bring the incredible potential of SkyHive's technology to bear for the millions of under-skilled people around the world who will not be retrained by large enterprise employers. I look forward to working with my friends and colleagues across the social enterprise, NGO, Philanthropy, Government, Academic, and Corporate sectors meet this enormous challenge.
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