Samantha L. Beinhacker joined Arabella Advisors in February 2011 as Managing Director of the firm’s New York City office. She is working to significantly expand Arabella’s presence in New York, bringing the firm’s full range of philanthropic support services to the region’s institutional, corporate, family, and individual donors. She is building innovative partnerships and leading engagements that will enable Arabella’s clients to leverage New York’s unique resources — from Wall Street to Madison Avenue to Silicon Alley.
Sam brings to Arabella a wealth of relationships and knowledge about social innovation and philanthropy, as well as a global reputation as an advocate for institutions effecting social change. Previously, at the Skoll World Forum at Oxford University, she curated the thematic content for the largest global convening of social entrepreneurs and philanthropists that had ever been assembled. Prior to that effort, she directed the Yale School of Management/Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, a $6 million fund that seeded start-up nonprofit enterprises and educated nonprofits about income generation.
Sam is the editor of Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies (Jossey-Bass, 2004), and has written and spoken extensively about nonprofit management and philanthropy. You can follow her on Twitter at @slboval and read her blog, “Tapping the Crowd,” on socialedge.org. Sam graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and earned her master’s degree in U.S. Womens’ History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.