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Rachel Newton Bellow

For more than 20 years, Rachel Newton Bellow has worked with Fortune 500 corporations and nonprofit organizational leaders to design and execute strategic plans with an emphasis on innovation. Rachel began her career on the design team for the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” awards, where she developed a system for mapping leaders and their institutions in all industries and disciplines.  She later served as Program Director at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she developed and directed over 20 new funding programs addressing leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector in America and abroad.  As founding President and CEO of Project 180, she was a pioneer in articulating the case for joint ventures between commercial and nonprofit organizations and establishing applications in social entrepreneurship.  In 1999, Rachel became a Partner at Divine, Inc., a venture capital firm where she was responsible for strategy and acquisitions for its “social market” division. Rachel’s consulting work has focused on helping CEO’s and boards of directors to clarify company mission, dissolve operating conflicts, and address individual leadership challenges.  Her insight is particularly adept with start-ups and with companies at critical inflection points—where dramatic and accelerated change is needed.  She has worked with leaders of the TED Conference, Global Business Network, the Monitor Group, Daniel Yankelovich, NY Society of Securities Analysts, WNYC Radio, the American Center in Paris, Waterkeeper Alliance, and numerous start-up Internet companies. Rachel received her B.A., Magna Cum Laude, at Harvard University.