Joanna Jacobson

Founder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners

Board Memberships: David Project, Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, Youth Villages Recent Activity: Gave $5.1 million in grants in 2011 Jacobson, a Harvard MBA and former president of the Keds Corporation, brings a venture philanthropist’s focus on results to Strategic Grant Partners, which she started in 2002 as a nonprofit incubator. Legendary investors such as Seth Klarman, James Pallotta, and Josh Bekenstein enlist her to help them discover, and then fund, some of the area’s best nonprofits. Groups receiving SGP donations, which have included Year Up and Youth Villages, are expected to quantify their results, in the form of, say, higher test scores or revenue growth.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Board Memberships

One8 Foundation private foundation, Boston, MA

• President and Trustee

Donations

Great Schools Massachusetts Referendum Committee to Lift MA Charter School Cap

• Donation/Grant · 40,000 USD

Public Charter Schools for Mass Campaign committee for 2016 "Yes on 2" Massachusetts ballot initiative to lift the cap on charter schools

• Donation · 40,000 USD (Sep 17 '15)

Federal Election Campaign Contributions

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Romney Victory

• 2 contributions · 50,800 USD (Jun 1 '12→Sep 25 '12)

National Republican Senatorial Committee Campaign committee for Republican U.S. Senate candidates

• 3 contributions · 50,000 USD ('12→Sep 28 '12)

Republican National Committee U.S. political committee that leads the Republican Party of the U.S., a/k/a The Grand Ol' Party/GOP

• 1 contribution · 30,800 USD ('12)

Scott Brown Victory Cmte

• 1 contribution · 20,000 USD (Sep 25 '12)

National Republican Congressional Committee

• 1 contribution · 10,000 USD ('12)

Mark Steven Kirk US Senator and Representative from Illinois

• 3 contributions · 7,100 USD ('08→Oct 29 '09)

Sean D Bielat

• 2 contributions · 5,000 USD ('12→Jun 22 '12)

Mitt Romney U.S. senator from Utah, former Massachusetts governor

• 4 contributions · 5,000 USD ('11→Apr 24 '12)

Scott P Brown US ambassador to New Zealand, former Republican US Senator from Massachusetts

• 3 contributions · 5,000 USD ('12→Mar 31 '12)

Joe Lieberman Former US Senator for CT (1989-2013); Vice President nominee (2000)

• 1 contribution · 5,000 USD ('06)

Family

Jonathon S Jacobson Highfields Capital Co-Founder

• husband

Schools

Harvard Business School

• MBA