Deidre Lind
Deidre Lind is the Founder and CEO of A Better Impact where she leads social impact strategy with companies and start-ups, philanthropic foundations, cross-sector collaborations, and nonprofits building upon decades of experience leading corporate social responsibility programs, private philanthropy and public private partnerships.
As Founding Executive Director of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, she led public private partnerships in response to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, and launched the California Volunteers Fund with Governor Gavin Newsom. She led philanthropic transformation both as the Executive Director of a private foundation, and as Mattel’s chief global social impact strategist where she built the foundation of their current CSR programming.
She serves as an advisor to the Los Angeles Wildfires Philanthropy Working Group & Civic Leaders Council, Governance & Sustainability Center Fellow with The Conference Board, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Accelerator for America and Accelerator for America Action, Board Member of the Social Impact Fund and continues as Adjunct Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy.
