Currently, individuals in the U.S. donate $200-300B per year, yet few tools exist to enable the majority of individuals to be more effective with their giving and to experience more joy from giving. Nonprofit Knowledge Network is working to change this by enabling individuals to pick issues with their heart, and organizations with their minds.
Howard Bornstein is a student in the Masters of Business Administration and Masters of Public Policy joint degree program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Public Policy Program, respectively. He is currently starting Nonprofit Knowledge Network (NKN) with a group of Stanford students. NKN is a social venture aimed at helping the individuals and corporations in the U.S., who donate over $200B annually, be more effective with their giving and experience more joy from it (www.nonprofitkn.org) by tapping into the knowledge of experts in the nonprofit sector and improving the process of donating. At school, Howard taught leadership skills to first-year MBA students as an Arbuckle Leadership Fellow, serves on the Executive Committee of the Public Management Program, and actively participates as a member of the Private Equity and Entrepreneurship clubs. Howard was one of five Stanford MBA students recognized with the Class of 2009 Siebel Scholars award.
Prior to business school, Howard worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he developed PRI (Program Related Investment – a type of strategic, mission-oriented low interest loans) investment theses for charter schools and low income affordable housing developments, contributed to new strategy development for the U.S. Program’s U.S. Special Initiatives team, and assisted in a variety of other operational, financial, and strategic roles. Prior to the Gates Foundation, he worked at McKinsey & Company’s Toronto, Canada office. Former charitable work includes being Chairperson of Youth Tobacco Coalition, a former Toronto-based anti-tobacco organization, and assisting in volunteer consulting for United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland. Howard holds a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business.
