Abe Grindle

As a Director on Co-Impact’s Programs team, Abe helps to oversee the sourcing, vetting, structuring, and support of philanthropic systems change grants.

Prior to joining the Co-Impact team in 2017, Abe spent almost a decade with the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit spinoff of Bain & Company. At Bridgespan, Abe directed teams advising leading philanthropists and NGOs operating in Africa, the Caribbean, India, and North America, helping them develop strategies to significantly scale their impact and improve their effectiveness, and to secure or deploy tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in philanthropy. He also co-founded and managed Bridgespan’s multi-year research initiative focused on the challenge of systems change, i.e., creating enduring solutions to social problems at the scale of need. As part of this effort, he authored and co-authored numerous publications, including Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives in the Harvard Business Review, among others.

Prior to Bridgespan, Abe worked in technology innovation and policy, spending time at the White House Office of Management & Budget, NASA, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also spent a year in rural Montana working with Native American youth of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne nations.

Abe received a M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also completed an M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Abe graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Saint Louis University. Since 2016, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a global nonprofit service program.