Jonathan Greenblatt

Jonathan Greenblatt (born November 21,

1970) is an American social entrepreneur,
corporate executive, and the sixth National
Director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL).[1] Prior to heading the ADL,
Greenblatt served in the White House as
Special Assistant to Barack Obama and
Director of the Office of Social Innovation
and Civic Participation.[2]
Early life and education
Greenblatt was born on November 21,
1970, in Trumbull, Connecticut to a
Conservative Jewish family.[3][4] He
graduated from Tufts University in 1992,
earning a Bachelor of Arts.[5] After college,
Greenblatt worked on Bill Clinton's
successful presidential campaign in 1992
in Little Rock, Arkansas. He went on to join
the administration as an aide in the Clinton
White House and later the United States
Department of Commerce, where he
developed international economic policy
with a focus on
Jonathan
emerging markets
and post-conflict
Greenblatt
economies.[6]
Greenblatt also
holds a Masters in
Business
Administration from
the Kellogg School Director of the Anti-
of Management at Defamation League

Northwestern Incumbent

University.[6] Assumed office

2015

Career Preceded Abraham

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Ethos Water …
Foxman
Director of the White
In 2002, Greenblatt House Office of
and his business Social Innovation
and Civic
school roommate, Participation
Peter Thum, In office
founded Ethos 2011–2014
Water, a premium President Barack
bottled water social Obama
enterprise.[7] The Preceded Sonal
company sought to by Shah
help children around Succeeded David
the world get by Wilkinson
access to free water Personal details
by donating a Born November
portion of their 21, 1970

profits to finance Trumbull,

Connecticut,
water programs in
U.S.
developing
Spouse(s) Marjan
countries.[8] In 2005,
Keypour
Starbucks acquired
Greenblatt
the company for $8
Children 3
million.[9] Following
Alma Tufts
the acquisition,
mater University
Greenblatt served
(BA)
as Starbucks Vice
Northwestern
President of Global University
Consumer Products, (MBA)
scaling Ethos
across the US. Greenblatt also co-founded
Ethos International, and served on the
board of directors of the Starbucks
Foundation, where he developed Ethos'
global investment strategy that has
invested millions of dollars to bring clean
water to communities in need around the
world, including Bangladesh, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia,
Honduras, India, and Kenya.[10]

All for Good …

Greenblatt also founded All for Good
(AFG), the open source platform
developed to enable more Americans to
serve.[11] AFG is the largest aggregation of
volunteer opportunities on the Web, and is
supported by a coalition of leading
companies, non-profits, and government
agencies, all of whom shared a vision of
using open data to increase the number of
Americans that participate in service and
volunteerism. Craig Newmark, the founder
of Craigslist, helped to sponsor the
organization, and the open-source code
was utilized by [serve.gov].[12] In 2011, AFG
was acquired by the Points of Light
Institute in a strategic partnership
designed to help the organization scale.[13]

Good Worldwide …

Greenblatt was formerly the CEO of GOOD

Worldwide, LLC.[14] He led GOOD's
transition from a publishing company to a
diversified media company. Its products
include the website GOOD.is and GOOD
Magazine.[11][15] As CEO, Greenblatt
pushed a number of innovations at the
company, including the launch of the
GOOD Sheet, a broadsheet product
distributed exclusively at Starbucks, and a
name-your-own-pricing scheme that the
company ran as an experiment. It is not
clear whether this strategy was
successful.[16][17]

Impact Economy Initiative …

Greenblatt founded the Impact Economy

Initiative at the Aspen Institute to help
policy makers create an enabling
environment for the emerging market of
social enterprise and impact investing.
The Initiative worked with thought leaders
across impact sectors, including co-
convening the Impact Economy Summit at
the White House in October 2011.[18]

Other ventures …

Greenblatt served as an operating partner

at Satori Capital, a private equity firm
focused on conscious capitalism, and was
an active angel investor.[19] He also served
as a member of the faculty at the UCLA
Anderson School of Management,[20]
where he developed and taught its
coursework on social entrepreneurship.

Greenblatt was named CEO of the Anti-

Defamation League in 2014.

Obama administration …

In the fall of 2011, Greenblatt was

appointed to serve as Special Assistant to
the President for Obama and Director of
the Office of Social Innovation and Civic
Participation (SICP) in the United States
Domestic Policy Council.[21] As Director, he
led the Office's efforts to utilize human
capital and financial capital to bring
attention to community solutions. The
Office focused on issues such as national
service, civic engagement, impact
investing, and social enterprise.[22]

In his role as Director of SICP, Greenblatt

took an active role in supporting
AmeriCorps,[23] engaging the philanthropy
community,[24] supporting social
entrepreneurs,[25] and working with the G8
taskforce to support social impact
investment.[26] Greenblatt was involved in
a number of administration priorities,
including preventing gun violence[27] and
#GivingTuesday.[28] Greenblatt left the
administration in 2014 and was succeeded
by David Wilkinson.[29]

Awards and recognition

Member of the Pacific Council on
International Policy[30]

Henry Crown Fellowship, Aspen Institute

2007[31]

Wildlife Trust Award Recipient, 2009[32]

Named to the Global Agenda Council of
the World Economic Forum, 2011[33]

Delivered the 2013 Lyon & Bendheim

lecture at Tufts University[34]

Served as a senior fellow at the Wharton

School of Management in 2014[35]

Has served on numerous corporate and

non-profit boards, including the African
Leadership Foundation, the Jewish
Community Foundation of Los Angeles,
Kevita, KaBOOM!, and Water.org[11]
Personal life
Greenblatt is the grandson of a Holocaust
survivor.[36] He is married to Marjan
Keypour Greenblatt, an Iranian Jewish
political refugee to the United States who
is the founder and director of The Alliance
for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM), a non-
profit.[37] They have three children.[36][38][39]

References
1. Nathan Guttman (2014-11-06). "Anti-
Defamation League Picks Fresh Face
Jonathan Greenblatt as New Chief -
 News –" . Forward.com. Retrieved
2016-12-11.
2. "ADL Names Jonathan Greenblatt as
Abe Foxman's Successor – Tablet
Magazine" . Tabletmag.com. 2014-11-
06. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
3. "A Talk With Jonathan Greenblatt |
Hadassah Magazine" . Hadassah
Magazine. 2018-03-16. Retrieved
2018-08-31.
4. "BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Jonathan
Greenblatt, national director and CEO
of the Anti-Defamation League" .
POLITICO. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
5. "Notable Entrepreneurs in Tufts
History" . VentureFizz.
6. "The Reinvention of Philanthropy: An
Interview With The Aspen Institute's
Jonathan Greenblatt" . Care2.com.
Retrieved 2016-12-11.
7. "Ethics in a bottle" . cnn.com.
8. Rob Walker (2006-02-26). "Big Gulp" .
The New York Times. Retrieved
2016-12-11.
9. Coster, Helen (20 December 2010).
"How Ethos Water Made Starbucks
 Thirsty for a Deal" . Forbes. Retrieved
6 January 2018.
10. "Profile: Jonathan Greenblatt - Feature
- Tufts University" . tufts.edu. Archived
from the original on 2014-01-23.
11. "Worldchanging - Our Team - Jonathan
Greenblatt" . Worldchanging.com.
Archived from the original on 2015-
09-05. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
12. Gillian Reagan. "Craig Newmark
Teams With White House All for
Good" . Observer.
13. "Jonathan Greenblatt | Business
Forward" . Businessfwd.org. Retrieved
2016-12-11.
14. "Jonathan Greenblatt is a Very GOOD
Guy - Acumen" . Acumen.
15. "Jonathan Greenblatt — The Business
of Doing Good" . On Being. Retrieved
2016-12-11.
16. Fell, Jason (2008-09-10). "Good to Let
Subscribers Name Their Own Price" .
Folio. foliomag.com. Archived from
the original on 2013-12-15. Retrieved
2017-09-21.
17. Stephanie Clifford (2008-09-07). "Ice-
Breaker at Starbucks: The Good
Sheet" . The New York Times.
Retrieved 2016-12-11.
18. "People : Jonathan Greenblatt" .
PopTech.org. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
19. "Anti-Defamation League names White
House official as new leader | Religion
News Service" . Religionnews.com.
2014-11-06. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
20. Ryan Lytle. "CEOs in the Classroom" .
US News & World Report.
21. "White House Names New Head of
Social-Innovation Unit" . The Chronicle
of Philanthropy.
22. Christensen, Clayton (2011-05-25).
"The White House Office on Social
Innovation: A New Paradigm for
Solving Social Problems" . The
Huffington Post. Retrieved
2016-12-11.
23. "AmeriCorps Alums Day at the White
House" . AmeriCorps Alums: Boston
Chapter.
24. "Notes from White House Forum on
Philanthropy" . echoinggreen.org.
25. "Why Social Entrepreneurs Could Use
a Little More Faith" . GOOD Magazine.
26. Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Social
Impact Investment Taskforce takes
shape at SOCAP" . trust.org.
27. "White House recruits foundations on
gun effort" . POLITICO.
28. Anne Kadet (30 November 2013).
"Giving Tuesday on the Rise" . WSJ.
29. "Introducing Our New Social
Innovation Director" . whitehouse.gov.
2015-03-03. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
30. "Mr. Jonathan Greenblatt" . Pacific
Council on International Policy.
pacificcouncil.org. Archived from the
original on 2013-12-15. Retrieved
2013-12-15.
31. "2007 We Go To Eleven Class" . The
Aspen Institute.
32. "Wildlife Trust Honors Innovative
Leaders In Conservation" .
ecohealthalliance.org. Archived from
the original on 2013-12-03.
33. "Jonathan Greenblatt" . Jonathan
Greenblatt - World Economic Forum.
34. Weiner, Josh. "Greenblatt speaks
about social entrenpreneurship" . The
Tufts Daily (student newspaper of
Tufts University). Archived from the
original on 2013-12-15. Retrieved
2013-12-15.
35. "The Daily Pennsylvanian | New Senior
Wharton Fellow joins Penn from the
White House" . Thedp.com. Retrieved
2016-12-11.
36. "Forward 50 2016 - Jonathan
Greenblatt - ADL's New Head Wades
Into a Political Mess" . The Forward.
 The Forward Association, Inc.
Retrieved 25 May 2017.
37. "User Profile - AGLN - Aspen Global
Leadership Network" . AGLN - Aspen
Global Leadership Network. Retrieved
2018-10-28.
38. "White House aide Jonathan
Greenblatt to succeed Abe Foxman as
ADL chief" . Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
39. Nathan Guttman; Noah Smith (2014-
11-13). "Anti-Defamation League
Signals New Path as Jonathan
 Greenblatt Takes Helm - News –" .
Forward.com. Retrieved 2016-12-11.

External links
Appearances on C-SPAN

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