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'{{Short description|American entrepreneur and executive}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jonathan Greenblatt | image = Jonathan Greenblatt by Gage Skidmore.jpg | office = 6th Director of the [[Anti-Defamation League]] | term_start = July 20, 2015 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Abraham H. Foxman]] | successor = | office2 = Director of the [[White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation]] | president2 = [[Barack Obama]] | term_end2 = 2014 | term_start2 = 2011 | predecessor2 = [[Sonal Shah (economist)|Sonal Shah]] | successor2 = David Wilkinson | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|11|21}} | birth_place = [[Trumbull, Connecticut]], U.S. | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = Marjan Keypour | children = 3 | education = [[Tufts University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Northwestern University]] ([[Master of Business Administration|MBA]]) }} '''Jonathan Greenblatt''' (born November 21, 1970) is an American entrepreneur, corporate executive, and the sixth National Director and CEO of the [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL).<ref name="The Forward">{{cite web|author=Nathan Guttman |url=http://forward.com/news/208754/anti-defamation-league-picks-fresh-face-jonathan-g/ |title=Anti-Defamation League Picks Fresh Face Jonathan Greenblatt as New Chief |website=The Forward|date=November 6, 2014 |accessdate=2016-12-11}}</ref> Prior to heading the ADL, Greenblatt served in the [[White House]] as Special Assistant to [[Barack Obama]] and Director of the [[Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation]].<ref name="tabletmag.com">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/186878/adl-names-abe-foxmans-successor |title=ADL Names Jonathan Greenblatt as Abe Foxman's Successor|website=Tablet Magazine |first=Stephanie |last=Butnick |date=November 6, 2014 |accessdate=2016-12-11}}</ref> ==Early life and education== Greenblatt the Kike retard was born on November 21, 1970, in [[Trumbull, Connecticut]] to a [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]] Jewish family. He is known for always shitting himself and saying "OY VEY SHUT IT DOWN". <ref>{{Cite interview|url=http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2018/03/16/talk-jonathan-greenblatt/|title=A Talk With Jonathan Greenblatt|date=March 16, 2018|interviewer=Rahel Musleah |first=Jonathan |last=Greenblatt |work=Hadassah Magazine|access-date=2018-08-31|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/21/birthday-of-the-day-jonathan-greenblatt-national-director-and-ceo-of-the-anti-defamation-league-254563|title=BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League|work=Politico|first=Daniel|last=Lippman|access-date=August 31, 2018|language=en}}</ref> He graduated from [[Tufts University]] in 1992, earning a Bachelor of Arts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://venturefizz.com/blog/notable-entrepreneurs-tufts-history|title=Notable Entrepreneurs in Tufts History|work=VentureFizz|first=Eric |last=Peckham }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=June 2021}} After college, Greenblatt worked on [[Bill Clinton]]'s successful [[Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992|presidential campaign in 1992]] in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]]. He went on to join the administration as an aide in the [[Clinton White House]] and later the [[United States Department of Commerce]], where he developed international economic policy with a focus on [[emerging markets]] and post-conflict economies.<ref name=":0">{{cite interview|url=http://www.care2.com/causes/the-reinvention-of-philanthropy-an-interview-with-the-aspen-institutes-jonathan-greenblatt.html|date=April 27, 2011|title=The Reinvention of Philanthropy: An Interview With The Aspen Institute's Jonathan Greenblatt|website=Care2|accessdate=2016-12-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716062927/http://www.care2.com/causes/the-reinvention-of-philanthropy-an-interview-with-the-aspen-institutes-jonathan-greenblatt.html|archive-date=July 16, 2011}}</ref> Greenblatt also holds a Masters in Business Administration from the [[Kellogg School of Management]] at [[Northwestern University]].<ref name=":0" /> ==Career== ===Ethos Water=== In 2002, Greenblatt and his business school roommate, [[Peter Thum]], founded [[Ethos Water]], a premium bottled water social enterprise.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2007/10/31/smbusiness/Ethos.fsb/index.htm|title=Ethics in a bottle|work=CNN|first=Jessica|last=Harris|date=October 31, 2007}}</ref> The company sought to help children around the world get access to free water by donating a portion of their profits to finance water programs in developing countries.<ref>{{cite news|author=Rob Walker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/magazine/26wwln_consumed.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0 |title=Big Gulp |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=2006-02-26 |accessdate=2016-12-11}}</ref> In 2005, [[Starbucks]] acquired the company for $8 million.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/helencoster/2010/12/20/how-ethos-water-made-starbucks-thirsty-for-a-deal/#3b45a79679e4|title=How Ethos Water Made Starbucks Thirsty for a Deal|last=Coster|first=Helen|date=20 December 2010|work=[[Forbes]]|access-date=6 January 2018}}</ref> Following the acquisition, Greenblatt served as Starbucks Vice President of Global Consumer Products, scaling Ethos across the United States. Greenblatt also co-founded Ethos International, and served on the board of directors of the Starbucks Foundation, where he developed Ethos' global [[investment strategy]] that has invested millions of dollars to bring clean water to communities in need around the world, including [[Bangladesh]], the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Honduras]], [[India]], and [[Kenya]].<ref>{{cite interview|url=http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=greenblatt |title=Profile: Jonathan Greenblatt |work=Tufts News |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140123223021/http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=greenblatt |archivedate=2014-01-23|interviewer=Padden Murphy|first=Jonathan|last=Greenblatt }}</ref> ===All for Good=== Greenblatt also founded All for Good (AFG), the [[open source platform]] developed to enable more Americans to serve.<ref name="Worldchanging">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldchanging.com/bios/jonathan.html |title=Profile: Jonathan Greenblatt |website=[[Worldchanging|Worldchanging.com]] |accessdate=2016-12-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905093949/http://www.worldchanging.com/bios/jonathan.html |archivedate=2015-09-05 }}</ref> AFG is the largest aggregation of volunteer opportunities on the Web, and is supported by a coalition of leading companies, non-profits, and government agencies, all of whom shared a vision of using [[open data]] to increase the number of Americans that participate in service and [[volunteerism]]. [[Craig Newmark]], the founder of Craigslist, helped to sponsor the organization, and the open-source code was utilized by [serve.gov].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2009/06/craig-newmark-teams-with-white-house-all-for-good/|title=Craig Newmark Teams With White House All for Good|work=Observer|date=June 23, 2009|first=Gillian|last=Reagan}}</ref> In 2011, AFG was acquired by the [[Points of Light Institute]] in a strategic partnership designed to help the organization scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessfwd.org/speakers/jonathan-greenblatt |title=Jonathan Greenblatt &#124; Business Forward |website=Businessfwd.org |date= |accessdate=2016-12-11}}</ref> ===Good Worldwide=== Greenblatt was formerly the CEO of [[Good Worldwide|GOOD Worldwide, LLC]].<ref name=:NYT>{{cite news|author=Stephanie Clifford |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/media/08good.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0 |title=Ice-Breaker at Starbucks: The Good Sheet |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=2008-09-07 |accessdate=2016-12-11}}</ref> He led GOOD's transition from a publishing company to a diversified [[media company]]. Its products include the website GOOD.is and ''GOOD Magazine''.<ref name="Worldchanging"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onbeing.org/program/business-doing-good/187|title=Jonathan Greenblatt: The Business of Doing Good|work=On Being|accessdate=2016-12-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406180123/http://www.onbeing.org/program/business-doing-good/187|archive-date=April 6, 2016|date=July 31, 2008}}</ref> As CEO, Greenblatt pushed a number of innovations at the company, including the launch of the GOOD Sheet, a broadsheet product distributed exclusively at Starbucks, and a name-your-own-pricing scheme that the company ran as an experiment. It is not clear whether this strategy was successful.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fell |first=Jason |date=2008-09-10 |website=Folio. foliomag.com|url=http://test.foliomag.com/2008/good-let-subscribers-name-their-own-price |title=Good to Let Subscribers Name Their Own Price |accessdate=2017-09-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215194401/http://test.foliomag.com/2008/good-let-subscribers-name-their-own-price |archivedate=2013-12-15}}</ref> Greenblatt said in 2008 that the broadsheets were intended to be ideologically neutral.<ref name=:NYT /> ===Impact Economy Initiative=== {{primary section|date=June 2021}} Greenblatt founded the Impact Economy Initiative at the [[Aspen Institute]] to help policy makers create an enabling environment for the emerging market of social enterprise and impact investing. The Initiative worked with thought leaders across impact sectors, including co-convening the Impact Economy Summit at the White House in October 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poptech.org/people/jonathan_greenblatt |title=People : Jonathan Greenblatt |website=PopTech.org |date= |accessdate=2016-12-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826080445/https://poptech.org/people/jonathan_greenblatt|archive-date=August 26, 2016}}</ref> ===Other ventures=== Greenblatt served as an [[operating partner]] at Satori Capital, a [[private equity firm]] focused on [[conscious capitalism]], and was an active [[angel investor]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.religionnews.com/2014/11/06/anti-defamation-league-names-white-house-official-new-leader |title=Anti-Defamation League names White House official as new leader |work= Religion News Service |date=2014-11-06 |accessdate=2016-12-11|first=Lauren|last=Markoe}}</ref> He also served as a member of the faculty at the [[UCLA Anderson School of Management]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/slideshows/ceos-in-the-classroom/7|title=CEOs in the Classroom|first=Ryan|last=Lytle|work=US News & World Report|date=May 24, 2011}}</ref> where he developed and taught its [[coursework]] on [[social entrepreneurship]]. Greenblatt was named CEO of the Anti-Defamation League in 2014. ===Obama administration=== In the fall of 2011, Greenblatt was appointed to serve as [[Special Assistant to the President]] for President Obama and Director of the [[Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation]] (SICP) in the [[United States Domestic Policy Council]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://philanthropy.com/blogs/government-and-politics/white-house-names-new-head-of-social-innovation-unit/29098|title=White House Names New Head of Social-Innovation Unit|work=The Chronicle of Philanthropy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091742/https://echoinggreen.org/blog/notes-from-white-house-forum-on-philanthropy|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead|first=Cheryl|last=L. Dorsey|date= September 21, 2021}}</ref> As Director, he led the Office's efforts to utilize [[human capital]] and [[financial capital]] to bring attention to community solutions. The Office focused on issues such as [[national service]], [[civic engagement]], [[impact investing]], and [[social enterprise]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Christensen |first=Clayton |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clayton-m-christensen/the-white-house-office-on_b_223759.html |title=The White House Office on Social Innovation: A New Paradigm for Solving Social Problems |work=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=2011-05-25 |accessdate=2016-12-11}}</ref> In his role as Director of SICP, Greenblatt took an active role in supporting [[AmeriCorps]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://acalumsboston.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/americorps-alums-day-at-the-white-house/|title=AmeriCorps Alums Day at the White House|work=AmeriCorps Alums: Boston Chapter|date=August 22, 2012}}</ref> supporting social entrepreneurs,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.good.is/posts/why-social-entrepreneurs-could-use-a-little-more-faith|title=Why Social Entrepreneurs Could Use a Little More Faith|work=GOOD Magazine}}</ref> and working with the [[G8]] taskforce to support [[social impact investment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trust.org/item/20130905015516-zl2kh/|title=Social Impact Investment Taskforce takes shape at SOCAP|author=Thomson Reuters Foundation|work=trust.org}}</ref> Greenblatt was involved in a number of administration priorities, including preventing [[gun violence]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2013/01/white-house-recruits-foundations-on-gun-effort-153662|title=White House recruits foundations on gun effort|work=Politico|first=Reid|last=J. Epstein|date=January 8, 2013}}</ref> and #[[GivingTuesday]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304747004579228233114516964|title=Giving Tuesday on the Rise|author=Anne Kadet|date=30 November 2013|work=WSJ}}</ref> Greenblatt left the administration in 2014 and was succeeded by David Wilkinson.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-03-03|title=Introducing Our New Social Innovation Director|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03/03/introducing-our-new-social-innovation-director|access-date=March 3, 2015|website=whitehouse.gov|language=en|first=Cecilia|last=Muñoz}}</ref> ==="Real Facebook Oversight Board"=== On 30 September 2020, Greenblatt was named as one of the 25 members of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board", a group of academics, researchers and civil rights leaders created to counter the existing [[Oversight Board (Facebook)|Facebook Oversight Board]], an independent monitoring group over [[Facebook]] which they view as insufficient.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Butcher |first1=Mike |title='The Real Facebook Oversight Board' launches to counter Facebook's 'Oversight Board' |url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/30/the-real-facebook-oversight-board-launches-to-counter-facebooks-oversight-board/ |work=TechCrunch |date=September 30, 2020}}</ref> ==Personal life== Greenblatt is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor.<ref name="forward50" /> He is married to Marjan Keypour Greenblatt, an [[Iranian Jewish]] political refugee to the [[United States]] who is the founder and director of The Alliance for Rights of All Minorities (ARAM), a non-profit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://agln.aspeninstitute.org/profile/3627|title=User Profile - AGLN - Aspen Global Leadership Network|website=AGLN - Aspen Global Leadership Network|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-28}}</ref> They have three children.<ref name="forward50">{{cite web|title=Forward 50 2016 - Jonathan Greenblatt - ADL's New Head Wades Into a Political Mess|url=http://forward.com/series/forward-50/2016/jonathan-greenblatt/|website=The Forward|publisher=The Forward Association, Inc.|accessdate=25 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/2014/11/06/news-opinion/united-states/white-house-aide-to-succeed-abe-foxman-as-adl-chief-1|title=White House aide Jonathan Greenblatt to succeed Abe Foxman as ADL chief|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Nathan |last1=Guttman |first2=Noah |last2=Smith |url=http://forward.com/news/209122/anti-defamation-league-signals-new-path-as-jonatha/ |title=Anti-Defamation League Signals New Path as Jonathan Greenblatt Takes Helm |website=The Forward |date=November 13, 2014|accessdate=2016-12-11}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== *{{C-SPAN|78304}} {{Anti-Defamation League}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenblatt, Jonathan}} [[Category:1970 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:21st-century American businesspeople]] [[Category:American political consultants]] [[Category:Anti-Defamation League]] [[Category:Jewish American philanthropists]] [[Category:Jewish American writers]] [[Category:Kellogg School of Management alumni]] [[Category:Members of the Council on Foreign Relations]] [[Category:Tufts University alumni]] [[Category:Henry Crown Fellows]] [[Category:21st-century American Jews]]'