The Link Uniting Donors and Doers for Social Change<br />“These organizations would never say they were the organizations driving these changes,” Mr. Hussein said.<br />“You have to create all the desire to get people together.”<br />Mr. Druckenmiller said what made this approach work was the group’s belief in Ms. Roob and what her team was doing to vet organizations.<br />The appeal of Blue Meridian to Mr. Druckenmiller was the management group that brought the donors together and guided them.<br />“We start with the belief that it’s actually possible to solve significant social problems confronting the children<br />and youth living in poverty today,” said Nancy Roob, chief executive of Blue Meridian Partners and the foundation.<br />Taz Hussein, partner at the consultant Bridgespan Group and author of the report “Field Catalysts: The Unseen Agents<br />That Galvanize Social Change,” said he and his colleagues had identified 15 social change efforts — like reducing malaria deaths, bringing about same-sex marriage, reducing obesity — and asked what big change would look like.<br />“With my business, the way you make big money is, you find a great management team<br />and a good concept and you stick to it and you add to it over time,” Mr. Druckenmiller said.
