Executive Team
Managing Director
Lucy Bernholz is a Managing Director at Arabella Advisors. She joined Arabella in 2011 when the firm purchased Bernholz’s San Francisco-based consulting company, Blueprint Research + Design. She is an internationally renowned consultant and writer on philanthropy and the social economy. The Huffington Post selected her as a national “Game Changer” for her work on philanthropy, technology, information, and policy which appears on her award-winning blog, philanthropy2173.com.
Bernholz is also a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a Fellow with the Hybrid Reality Institute and former Fellow of the New America Foundation. Among other advisory roles, Bernholz serves on the Board of The Craigslist Foundation, on the NeXii Industry Standards and Advisory Board, and is an advisor to the Center for Digital Information. She is a frequent conference speaker and an oft-quoted media source for NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economic Times of India. Bernholz is the author of numerous articles and books about the business of giving, including the 2010 monograph Disrupting Philanthropy, and her 2004 book, Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution. She has a B.A. from Yale University, where she played field hockey and captained the lacrosse team, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.