Maggi Alexander

Senior Fellow in Social Innovation

Maggi Alexander leads TPI’s Center for Global Philanthropy and in this role  directs New England International Donors (NEID).  An entrepreneurial leader, Maggi has spent over 25 years focused on improving the quality of life for low-income children, families, and communities in the United States and over 30 countries worldwide. She has extensive experience building partnerships and alliances that cut across traditional divides and has worked in the corporate, philanthropic, nonprofit, and public sectors.  Maggi’s experience in organizational development spans the early start-up process to achieving scale and sustainability; she is passionate about turning great ideas into reality.

Maggi’s commitment to international development was ignited when she worked as a street educator providing direct services to working and street-based children in developing countries.  In 1991, Maggi joined the International Youth Foundation (IYF) shortly after it was established, playing numerous key leadership roles as the organization grew, including direct program and organizational leadership of a fast growing network of partner foundations across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.  Today, IYF is among the world’s leading public foundations focused on investing in young people, with operations in more than 80 countries.

Most recently, Maggi worked with the ImagineNations Group to provide rural young people and smallholder farmers with relevant education, training, and finance, fostering a new generation of Africans who are prosperous along the field-to-fork agriculture value chain.  In 2006, Maggi founded and continues to serve as volunteer Director for Kids-Take-Action, a nonprofit aimed at inspiring service and social action among school-aged children.   Over her career, Maggi has held several other senior leadership positions with national and international organizations, including the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, UNICEF, the Fetzer Institute, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.  Maggi has an MA from John’s Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.