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Jeff Berndt
Managing Partner
As a Managing Partner at New Profit, Jeff oversees all investor, communications, and fundraising efforts, and advises and assists organizations across the portfolio with their fundraising strategies.
Jeff has spent his professional career helping nonprofit leaders, donors, trustees, and organizations believe in their ability to fulfill their visions and missions, and raise the resources needed to make their aspirations possible. In his role at New Profit, he leverages these experiences and his knowledge to lead efforts and investor partnerships, and to help our portfolio organizations build more robust, sustainable revenue programs.

Jeff came to New Profit with 15 years of fundraising and capital campaign experience. Most recently, he was Director of Development at Noble and Greenough School, an independent day school outside of Boston. At Nobles, he oversaw a staff of 17 people, and designed and implemented the nation's first ever $100 million independent day school campaign. Before joining Nobles, Jeff worked at Middlesex School for eight years, where he was a senior member of a team that raised a then record setting $125 million capital drive.

When Jeff isn't at work or hanging out with his wife, Kristin, and their three children, Erik, Tyler, and Kendell in Cohasset, Massachusetts, he loves to golf, build stone walls, and cook.
Q&A
What is the most unusual job you've ever had?
Long story about being a limo driver at night in order to pay for school and rent that actually led me to my first job in development

Favorite place in the entire world?
Summertime at my home in Cohasset with my wife and kids around

What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the
morning?

I'll just hit the snooze button one more time

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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