Kimberly Dasher Tripp

Kimberly Dasher Tripp is founder and principal of Strategy for Scale, where she works with donors and doers on philanthropic strategy. She conducts research and writes on the practices and behaviors of philanthropists; acts as a strategic philanthropic advisor to individual, family, and institutional philanthropies; and works with nonprofits and coalitions on issues of governance, strategy and effective revenue models. She is particularly interested in new approaches to high-impact philanthropy, on the hunt for the best models to accelerate systems change, and is endlessly curious about the sector.

Previously, Kimberly was principal on the portfolio team of the Skoll Foundation, where she ran the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. 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 and her husband, Owen, have three wonderful children.