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Jim Pitofsky
Jim Pitofsky is a Partner at the Social Enterprise Alliance, which builds stronger, more effective nonprofit organizations by mobilizing a community of practitioners and investors to advance earned income strategies . SeaChange, which he founded, recently merged with the National Gathering for Social Entrepreneurs to form SEA. SeaChange facilitated access to capital and collaboration between social investors and nonprofit social entrepreneurs for sustainable social change. For the last several years Jim has also been facilitating a collaborative of 200 funders who are working to advance social entrepreneurship, innovation in philanthropy and engaged philanthropy. For several years, Jim has served as an advisor to many CEOs on corporate social responsibility, social change, philanthropy and volunteerism. He also currently serves as facilitator and advisor for giving circles of philanthropists in the Bay Area. Jim has spoken at the World Economic Forum, the State of the World Forum, the Fortune CEO Forum, the White House Conference on Philanthropy and hundreds of other convenings of corporate, philanthropic and nonprofit leaders and he has been a keynote speaker at more than 30 conferences.
Prior to SeaChange, Jim served as the Vice President and then President of the Echoing Green Foundation where he initiated and managed strategic, entrepreneurial alliances with businesses, philanthropists, foundations, government agencies and Fellows and provided and coordinated training and online and offline technical support to 300 social entrepreneurs in thirty states and thirty countries.
Previously, Jim received an Echoing Green Fellowship to found and direct IDEALS, an organization that worked with every state in the country and several other countries to provide training and technical assistance for creating and managing school/community and business/education partnerships. IDEALS was later adopted by the National Association of Partners in Education, where Jim served as their Director of Leadership Development & Government Relations. One of the pilot sites was recognized by US Secretary of Education Riley as a national model for service-learning partnerships. For three years, he also served as the elected President of the National and Community Service Coalition, which played a lead role in providing counsel to the Clinton Administration and to members of Congress in shaping the National and Community Service Trust Act. The Coalition, representing thousands of programs and millions of volunteers, served as the leading collective voice for the service movement.
Prior to that, he worked toward social change in education and law (disability, civil rights, education and death penalty through the ACLU, Skadden Arps, the NY Lawyers for Public Interest and Advocates for Children) and has been actively involved in community organizing and public policy issues concerning people with disabilities, communities of color, low-income communities and migrant farm workers. Jim received his BA from Stanford University and his JD from Georgetown as a Public Interest Law Scholar.
Jim grew up around the entertainment industry. His great Uncle was Ed Sullivan, his mother was a regular on TV and had her own sitcom and he was a child actor before stopping after middle school to just be a kid.
Jim Pitofsky
Social Enterprise Alliance
c/o Draper Fisher Jurvetson
400 Seaport Court
Suite 250
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone: 650-701-8542
Fax: 650-599-9726
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