Austin Community Foundation has turned one woman’s $30,000 bequest into a $669 million piece of civic infrastructure. Its real product is not charity paperwork - it is making local generosity easier to deploy, harder to waste and patient enough to outlive the donor.
Kenneth Lee is the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration, at Southern New Hampshire University, one of the largest nonprofit providers of online higher education in the United States. Since 2018 he has steered the money behind a 16,000-employee institution that turned a small regional college into a national online powerhouse, overseeing finance, accounting, financial planning, treasury, tax, internal controls, procurement, and the campus and facilities themselves. A two-time Harvard graduate and former A.T. Kearney partner, Lee spent seventeen years in consulting and senior corporate roles before deciding the most interesting balance sheets were the ones attached to a mission.