Molly O'Donnell is a Managing Partner at New Profit, a national venture philanthropy firm where she co-leads New Profit’s Portfolio Investing team. Molly oversees the vision, strategy, and management of both New Profit’s Build (multi-year) and Catalyze (early stage, one-two year) investment portfolios and sits on New Profit’s Leadership Team. In this work, Molly oversees the selection and capacity building support for a portfolio of ~100 non-profit grantee partners across the issue areas of education, economic mobility, and democracy.

Previously at New Profit, she co-led New Profit’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), a four-year initiative providing New Profit’s signature advisory support to eight leading personalized learning organizations as well as a four-year CEO learning community and supported the New Profit Reimagine Learning Fund.

Prior to New Profit, Molly worked in non-profit consulting, briefly in the US Senate and began her career as a youth worker focused on student leadership and identity development and family engagement in Portland, OR and New Orleans, LA. She made her way to Boston to pursue her MPP and MBA at Brandeis University. Molly is a 2014 MPP Segal Fellow. During her Segal Fellowship she worked at Root Cause and was paired with Segal Coach and Founder Margaret McKenna.