The Link Uniting Donors and Doers for Social Change
“These organizations would never say they were the organizations driving these changes,” Mr. Hussein said.
“You have to create all the desire to get people together.”
Mr. Druckenmiller said what made this approach work was the group’s belief in Ms. Roob and what her team was doing to vet organizations.
The appeal of Blue Meridian to Mr. Druckenmiller was the management group that brought the donors together and guided them.
“We start with the belief that it’s actually possible to solve significant social problems confronting the children
and youth living in poverty today,” said Nancy Roob, chief executive of Blue Meridian Partners and the foundation.
Taz Hussein, partner at the consultant Bridgespan Group and author of the report “Field Catalysts: The Unseen Agents
That Galvanize Social Change,” said he and his colleagues had identified 15 social change efforts — like reducing malaria deaths, bringing about same-sex marriage, reducing obesity — and asked what big change would look like.
“With my business, the way you make big money is, you find a great management team
and a good concept and you stick to it and you add to it over time,” Mr. Druckenmiller said.
