Effective Ventures Foundation USA, Inc.

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Effective Ventures Foundation USA, Inc.

Effective Ventures Foundation USA, Inc. is a section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in the USA (EIN 47-1988398).

Our Board

The EV US Board is responsible for overall management and oversight of EV US.

Zach Robinson
Zach is the CEO of EV US. Previously, he was Chief of Staff at Open Philanthropy, where he managed communications and grantmaking teams, helped set org-wide policies, and worked to identify new Global Health and Wellbeing cause areas for Open Philanthropy, among other things. Prior to his work at Open Philanthropy, he was the director of product and strategy for startup Ivy Research Council and worked as a consultant at Bain and Company.

Lincoln Quirk
Lincoln dropped out of a Harvard Ph.D program and founded Sendwave in 2014 to lower the cost of international remittances, saving migrant workers and their families over $1B to date. In 2021 he and his co-founder sold that business and spun off a new company, Wave, to build mobile money: low-cost digital financial infrastructure in Africa. Lincoln has pledged to give 10% of his personal proceeds from his companies to charity.

Miriam Rodgers

Our CEO

Zachary Robinson
CEO of EV US

Zach was Chief of Staff at Open Philanthropy, where he managed communications and grantmaking teams, helped set org-wide policies, and worked to identify new Global Health and Wellbeing cause areas for Open Philanthropy, among other things. Prior to his work at Open Philanthropy, he was the director of product and strategy for startup Ivy Research Council and worked as a consultant at Bain and Company.