Leslie Crutchfield

1993

Leslie Crutchfield

Who Cares Magazine

Washington, DC, United States

Education & Youth Leadership, Public Service

The Bold Idea:

Create a magazine that informs readers through incisive, nonpartisan coverage of community service; inspires readers with profiles of young activists, volunteers, and entrepreneurs; and to challenges readers to consider new ways of fixing society's problems.

Biography:

This biography is current as of September 2008. 

After founding Who Cares: The Tool Kit for Social Change, Leslie has gone on to become a managing director of Ashoka, a research grantee of The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, and a philanthropic advisor to foundations and high net worth individuals. She manages Ashoka’s recently launched Global Academy, whose members include the “global greats” of social entrepreneurship such as Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Leslie wrote the critically acclaimed book Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, published in 2007.

Leslie has lectured at Harvard and Stanford business schools, and has presented at numerous industry conferences on social entrepreneurship, international development, high¬impact philanthropy,and women’s leadership. She has been featured as one of America’s top leaders under 40 by Newsweek and media. She volunteered with Crossroads Africa in the Gambia, and serves on the board of the SEED Foundation in Washington. D.C. She holds an MBA and an AB from Harvard University, and resides in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children.