GreenLight Nashville 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, Newark, Philadelphia, Miami and the Twin Cities. Since our founding, Green Light has launched and supported 62 innovative organizations across these sites that reached 1.3M children and families last year.
Nashville is our next expansion city.

In 2026, 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 Fund is currently seeking a dynamic, passionate, and collaborative Executive Director to lead the launch and establishment of Green Light Nashville. This entrepreneurial leader will build the Green Light Nashville Selection Advisory Council and run the diligence and selection process which includes identifying highest priority needs, selecting portfolio organizations and supporting expanding organizations as they launch and grow. In addition, they will steward and secure funders and other resources to support Green Light Nashville and its portfolio organizations and engage a wide variety of constituents in this work.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a results-oriented and inspiring leader to work autonomously to bring a proven model of growing high-performing nonprofits to Nashville and to engage individuals, funders, and companies to create meaningful community impact. Reporting to a Vice President, Site Success, the Executive Director will lead implementation of Green Light’s Method of Impact in Nashville, 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 community-wide Selection Advisory Council to advise on identifying Nashville’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 member for portfolio organizations.
• Act as a strategic thought partner to and connector for local portfolio organization Executive Directors and boards on a broad range of strategic and operational issues.

• Represent Green Light Nashville externally and cultivate a network of relationships with community leaders, entrepreneurs, the private-sector investor community, philanthropic partners, government officials, nonprofit and business leaders, and prospective partner organizations.
• Actively steward Green Light Nashville investors, secure event sponsor ships, and lead all stages of the fundraising cycle.
• Secure critical resources, financial and otherwise, for Green Light Nashville and portfolio…