Kimberly Syman

Partner, New Profit Inc.

Kim Syman joined New Profit Inc. in 2002, bringing with her more than ten years of experience in the nonprofit sector. As a partner and member of New Profit's senior management team, Kim anchors relationships with portfolio organizations as well as key individual and institutional investors. She plays a leading role in developing New Profit's annual convening and other sector development work connecting philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and policy makers. Kim is also a principle in developing resources to triple the size of New Profit's portfolio over the next five years. From 1999 through 2002, Kim served as Executive Director of the Green Mountain Horse Association in Vermont, where she worked to redevelop the 75-year-old organization as a key link between the $80 million equine industry and the movement to ensure sustainable open spaces. Kim worked for City Year, Inc., a national service program for young people ages 17-23, from 1995-99. At City Year, she served as interim National Development Director, led an effort to generate resources to grow City Year's network across the country, and was a member of the team that developed the concept and model for New Profit. From 1991 through 1993, Kim led a citizen's group addressing the needs of disadvantaged populations in her New York City neighborhood while working in television news and documentary production. Kim currently serves as a member of the Kids Voting USA Board of Directors and participates on the strategy and fundraising committees of several other Boston-based and national nonprofits. Kim received her undergraduate degree from U.C. Berkeley and spent a year at Oxford University's Wadham College in a Master's course in philosophy and social anthropology.