Andrea McGrath – The Center for Applied Philanthropy

Andrea E McGrath is the Director of the Center for Applied Philanthropy. Andrea has developed a broad perspective of the field of social enterprise and innovation through her work as a researcher and consultant for nonprofits, venture funds, think tanks and academic institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. As a consultant, Andrea has focused primarily on business development and planning, feasibility studies, project management and recruitment. Her research has been driven by issues critical to scaling impact, including examinations of ‘capital’ needs in the field (knowledge, human, financial) and how policy changes and collaborations between social enterprise and government could help foster, support, and scale innovation in the sector.A