New on the Job: Lisa Nitze, Chief Executive Officer, Social Enterprise Alliance

June 13, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute

Background: Ms. Nitze, 50, will assume her new role at the national membership organization in July, after five years at Ashoka, a charity that supports people who are developing new approaches to tackling social problems. At Ashoka, she most recently served as vice president of the global-engagement team. She has also worked on economic-development efforts in New Jersey and Maryland, and created the group Save Ellis Island.

Education: She received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in government, and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University.

Her agenda: To build ties between people working in the field of social enterprise and help them gain access to the money and expertise they need to grow. She also wants to better connect social entrepreneurs in North America with their counterparts around the world.

Salary: $135,000

About the Author

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.