2024 marks WHC’s sixth year and Kimberly Driggins’ fifth year as Executive Director. As WHC enters our next phase of impact, we’re excited to pursue new avenues of growth and opportunity. A critical part of this new journey is a recent investment from New Profit. In addition to transformative financial support, this investment includes strategic organizational advice and a senior New Profit leader for WHC’s Board. We are so excited to announce that Trevor Brown, New Profit’s Senior Partner, has joined the WHC’s Board. His extensive business and nonprofit management experience, coupled with a passion to help organizations increase their impact, comes at just the right time. We are evolving and building our platform to sustain us for the future. We look forward to his insights and guidance.
Trevor Brown has a passion for driving impact for social entrepreneurs, so they are able to realize their goals to build and strengthen communities. As Senior Partner at New Profit, he does this by bringing strategy acumen honed by his experiences working in management consulting and philanthropy to help social entrepreneurs secure resources and employ the best strategies to fortify and grow their organizations. “I work with organizations who are the best at what they do, bringing them unrestricted funds, access to resources, and providing advice on how they can actualize their vision,” Brown says.
Growing up in the Greater Hartford area in Connecticut, his parents instilled in him a service mentality. Beginning in high school, he took on community leadership roles in endeavors that gave him an opportunity to give back. After a stint in banking and earning an MBA, he worked in management consulting, including the Monitor Group, supporting companies and nonprofits across industries and fields on strategy and operations.
“As much as I loved driving these consulting projects and working on challenges with a range of organizations, I was excited to work exclusively with social impact organizations,” Brown says.
Monitor Group incubated New Profit and when the opportunity arose to join, he jumped on it.
The New Profit model is shifting how capital flows into the social entrepreneurship space. As a venture philanthropy, New Profit is committed to supporting social innovators, providing much needed funding as well as strategic advice and counsel to build organizational capacity.
Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) recently received a 2024 New Profit Build Investment, consisting of an unrestricted grant of $1.5 million dollars and strategic support over the next four years to increase its impact and sustainability. As part of that investment, Brown will take a Board seat.
What is particularly compelling for Brown is WHC’s focus on economic mobility, a key issue for New Profit.
“There are so many different aspects of what contributes or detracts from someone’s economic mobility. Housing is a key element. Kimberly’s thinking about how to shift the nature of the relationship between the landlord and tenants and how you think about community and space and leveraging those to help people on their economic mobility journey is exciting,” he says.
In the coming months, he plans to listen and learn about the organization, to understand where the Board is, what Kimberly’s vision is for growth, and how it can build a sustainable organization.
‘I look forward to being a partner to think about where WHC is going and what we’re building to realize Kimberly’s and WHC’s vision. That’s where I hope to really dig in.”
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