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The Bridgespan Group is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of nonprofits and philanthropy to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society’s most important challenges and opportunities.

Bridgespan Group is headquarted in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has offices in San Francisco, California and New York, New York.

Organization
Founded in 2000 and incubated at Bain & Company, the Bridgespan Group is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which provides management strategies and tools for nonprofit organizations and foundations. The company offers consulting services, such as growth, strategic focus, economic sustainability, and performance measurement; and knowledge-sharing. It also provides recruitment consulting and search services thru it's initiative Bridgestar.org; and access to knowledge base through research reports, speeches, panels, special events, and newsletters.

In addition to consulting, Bridgespan pursues its mission through two initiatives: Knowledge sharing—codifying and disseminating insights from consulting engagements, tools and frameworks to help improve the practice and performance of nonprofits and foundations; and Bridgestar—talent matching services, content and tools to help organizations build strong leadership teams and individuals pursue career paths as nonprofit leaders.

Bridgespan seeks to work collaboratively with others pursuing common or complementary objectives. Their initiatives include Bridgestar's alliances with boardnetUSA, eBay, and leading colleges and universities; knowledge-sharing alliances have included collaborations with the Community Service Society of New York, serving on advisory boards of distinguished nonprofit publishing platforms like the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Nonprofit Quarterly, and serving on committees at organizations such as Independent Sector and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.