About me
Grant La Rouche combines a record of nonprofit management with a passion for innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. Currently he is working to build and sustain a powerful conservation movement across the National Wildlife Federation's Mid-Atlantic Region, including helping found the Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed, Thrive Outside Greater Philadelphia, and the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River. He ran a successful campaign, 4 the Delaware, that used public engagement to drive together the governors of the basin states to create a new vision for restoration.
Grant has a long history of working with social entrepreneurs to affect large-scale change. Most recently he was Executive Director of an award-winning social enterprise, I Do Foundation, working to establish paths to donor-driven philanthropy. Prior to this position, he used leadership positions with several organizations, including Civic Ventures and Ashoka, in order to establish innovative high-engagement donor programs that create revenue and programmatic impact.
Specialties: Conservation impact, innovation and intrapreneuring, social entrepreneurship, major gifts, earned income ventures, partnership building, branding and identity, strategic planning, scaling mezzanine-level nonprofits, training and capacity building