GreenLight Fund - Kansas Executive Director

Founded in Boston in 2004, Green Light Fund addresses barriers to economic mobility for children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating local infrastructure and a consistent annual process to:

• Identify critical needs and barriers for people experiencing poverty.
• Import innovative, entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant, measurable impact.
• Galvanize local support to help programs reach and sustain impact in the city.

In addition to funding, Green Light Fund provides ongoing support to the organizations it brings to a city (portfolio organizations) through access to a national network of partners and city-specific relationships and knowledge, as well as expertise developed through Green Light Fund’s experience in other cities, which helps ensure their success and impact.

Currently, in addition to the founding site in Boston, Green Light Fund has sites in Atlanta, the Bay Area, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Miami, Newark, Philadelphia, and the Twin Cities. Nashville, our newest site, will launch in 2026. Since our founding, Green Light has launched and supported 62 innovative organizations across these sites that reached 1.3M children and families last year.

Green Light Fund is poised for continued growth, with a focus on deepening community impact, growing to new cities, building our learning capacity, building strategic partnerships, and centering equity in all that we do. To learn more about Green Light Fund’s work, please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Green Light Kansas City has philanthropically invested $3M to bring 5 organizations to the city and leveraged an additional $4.8M to drive measurable outcomes for residents navigating poverty and working to overcome barriers to inclusive economic opportunity.

In 2025, Green Light reached more than 61,028 Kansas City residents and families through their portfolio organizations:
Food Connect, mRelief, All Our Kin, Becoming a Man (BAM), and Working on Womanhood (WOW).

Green Light Fund is currently seeking a dynamic, passionate, and collaborative Executive Director to lead Green Light Kansas City forward. The Executive Director will work with a Selection Advisory Council – that includes private sector entrepreneurs and investors, nonprofit leaders, philanthropic leaders, social entrepreneurs, issue experts, and Kansas City residents with lived experience navigating poverty – to identify critical needs in Kansas City and vet, select, fund, and launch the highest-performing national solutions that directly fit the needs of the community.

This entrepreneurial leader will continue to build Green Light Fund’s visibility and network, including building a strong, diverse coalition to support Green Light Kansas City and its portfolio organizations and cultivating and expanding its donor base.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced, results-oriented, and inspiring leader to work collaboratively to deliver a proven model of growing high-performing nonprofits in Kansas City and to engage individuals, funders, and companies to create meaningful community impact in this Green Light Fund site. Reporting to a Vice President, Site Success, the Executive Director will lead implementation of Green Light’s Method of Impact in Kansas City, partner with peers across the country to find and spread what works, and support the national Green Light network.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead a diverse community-wide Selection Advisory Council to advise on identifying Kansas City’s high priority community needs and the vetting and selection of portfolio organizations that can powerfully address them.
• Run an annual selection process to identify organizations with potential to have a significant impact on community needs, including conducting rigorous diligence and deep landscape analysis to understand organizations’ potential for impact and community fit.
• Engage the voice of community members with lived experience navigating poverty in determining priority needs and solutions.
• Serve as an active local board…