President and CEO, GuideStar
Jacob Harold is the President & CEO of GuideStar, the largest source of data about nonprofits. Each year ~10 million unique visitors seek answers from GuideStar’s 1.3 billion pieces of data. Harold came to GuideStar from the Hewlett Foundation, where he led grantmaking for the Philanthropy Program. Between 2006 and 2012, he oversaw $30 million in grants which, together, aimed to build a 21st century infrastructure for smart giving. Before that, he worked as a consultant to nonprofits and foundations at the Bridgespan Group and as a climate change strategist for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation based at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India. At the beginning of his careers he worked as a climate change campaigner for Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA and as the organizing director at Citizen Works.