ABOUT
Practical, forward-thinking strategy. Expert, seasoned partnership.
Strategy for Scale is led by Kimberly Dasher Tripp, a catalyst for positive change and innovation in the field of philanthropy for over 20 years.
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Strategist. Facilitator. Translator. Pattern-finder. Generalist. Idea-shaper. Collaborative builder. Practical optimist. Impatient empath.
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Kimberly Dasher Tripp
Kimberly Dasher Tripp is Founder and Principal of Strategy for Scale, where she has worked for over a decade with donors and doers on philanthropic strategy. She is particularly interested in new approaches to high impact philanthropy, on the hunt for the best models to accelerate systems change, and endlessly curious about the sector, with an eye to making it more effective. Recently, she helped launch the Redwoods Collective in partnership with Climate Lead and P150 to mobilize more philanthropy into climate, the Seed Fund at the Global Development Incubator to get more multi-stakeholder initiatives strategically launched and conducted two years of research on ways to activate more philanthropy (hint: use collaboratives and build better navigation infrastructure).
Previously, Kimberly was Principal on the Portfolio Team of the Skoll Foundation, where she ran the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. Focusing on selection processes that highlight large-scale change and funding opportunities that reward innovation, risk and possibility, she managed twenty-six grantees over her five-year tenure. She also spent years learning about the hard work of funding behavior change and health at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Her prior experience included nonprofit, international development work and corporate marketing.
Kimberly earned her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in political science. She received a Princeton-in-Asia Fellowship and taught at Khon Kaen University in Thailand. She currently serves on the board of Health Care Without Harm and the National Center for Family Philanthropy. She has three wonderful children with her husband, Owen, and lives in Marin County, CA.
ACTIVATION
Philanthropy is changing. More new entrants. More vehicles. More ways to use capital. We work to promote best practice, activate new donors and engage in efforts to scale philanthropic giving.
INNOVATION
The current and future philanthropic landscape requires new infrastructure, new ideas and new voices. We work in partnership to bring these new ideas to life.
ADVISING
And sometimes a little advice goes a long way. We provide limited advising hours (like office hours) for partners and players interested in strategic consultation.