19 Facts About Jonathan Greenblatt

Jonathan Greenblatt was born on November 21,1970, in Trumbull, Connecticut, to a Conservative Jewish family.

Jonathan Greenblatt graduated from Tufts University in 1992, earning a Bachelor of Arts.

Jonathan Greenblatt went on to join the administration as an aide in the Clinton White House and later the United States Department of Commerce, where he developed international economic policy with a focus on emerging markets and post-conflict economies.

Jonathan Greenblatt holds a master's in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jonathan Greenblatt sought to help children around the world get access to free water by donating a portion of their profits to finance water programs in developing countries.

Jonathan Greenblatt co-founded Ethos International, and served on the board of directors of the Starbucks Foundation, where he developed Ethos' global investment strategy that has invested millions of dollars to bring clean water to communities in need around the world, including Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, and Kenya.

Jonathan Greenblatt founded All for Good, the open source platform developed to enable more Americans to serve.

Jonathan Greenblatt was formerly the CEO of GOOD Worldwide, LLC He led GOOD's transition from a publishing company to a diversified media company.

Jonathan Greenblatt said in 2008 that the broadsheets were intended to be ideologically neutral.

Jonathan Greenblatt founded the Impact Economy Initiative at the Aspen Institute to help policy makers create an enabling environment for the emerging market of social enterprise and impact investing.

Jonathan Greenblatt served as an operating partner at Satori Capital, a private equity firm focused on conscious capitalism, and was an active angel investor.

Jonathan Greenblatt served as a member of the faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he developed and taught its coursework on social entrepreneurship.

Jonathan Greenblatt left the administration in 2014 and was succeeded by David Wilkinson.

On September 30,2020, Jonathan Greenblatt was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", a group of academics, researchers and civil rights leaders created to counter the existing Facebook Oversight Board, an independent monitoring group over Facebook which they view as insufficient.

Jonathan Greenblatt was named CEO of the Anti-Defamation League in 2014.

Jonathan Greenblatt's tenure has seen increased partnerships with law enforcement agencies and support for anti-BDS legislation such as the Israel Anti-Boycott Act.

The ADL told The Intercept that it did not consider the Gaza war protests antisemitic, but Jonathan Greenblatt labelled the protesting groups as hate groups.

Jonathan Greenblatt accused groups including Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine of being "Iranian proxies".

Jonathan Greenblatt was criticized for his comments, including by employees of the ADL.