Exponential Fundraising founder and 24-year fundraising veteran Jennifer McCrea has worked with CEOs, fundraisers and board members from a wide variety of organizations, including Millennium Promise, Acumen Fund, Donorschoose.org, Grameen America, Teach for America, Witness, Columbia University, Quincy Jones Foundation, Comic Relief, X Prize Foundation, VH1 Save the Music Foundation, Rhode Island School of Design, Creative Commons and many others.

Jennifer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where she leads the Course in Exponential Fundraising.

She is also a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, serves as an advisory board member of the MIT Media Lab, Berklee College City Music program and the Blue School, and is a co-founder and board member of the Quincy Jones MusiQ Consortium. In addition, Jennifer currently leads the Business Leadership Council for a Generation Born HIV Free, a public-private partnership initiative with goal of ending the transmission of HIV from mothers to children worldwide by 2015.

A side passion for Jennifer began 5 years ago when she created a salon called “Puresite.” This monthly get together of philosopher/friends explores the truth of who we are on many levels and informs her work in philanthropy, not to mention shapes her as a parent, as a friend, and as a loyal co-worker.

Previously, Jennifer was at Case Western Reserve University and at Washington University in St. Louis during their multi-billion dollar campaign. She was also Vice President for Development at Dickinson College.