Betsy Doyle

Betsy Doyle is a partner in Bridgespan's San Francisco office and a senior advisor in the organization’s philanthropy practice. Since joining Bridgespan in 2001, her work has focused on supporting nonprofit, public, and philanthropic leaders in increasing the flow of philanthropic funds toward transformative social change. Betsy has deep expertise in strategic planning, sourcing and due diligence, philanthropic collaboratives, and management priorities such as scaling impact and building leadership capacity.

In recent years, she has advised individual donor families and philanthropic platforms on outcome-driven grantmaking. Since 2018, she has led Bridgespan’s partnership with TED Audacious, a platform that has unlocked more than $7 billion in philanthropic capital to support a global portfolio of social-change organizations. She is also a coauthor of “The Impact Case for Equity” (Bridgespan.org, 2024) and “Philanthropic Sourcing, Diligence, and Decision Making: An Equity-Oriented Approach” (Bridgespan.org, 2023). From 2018 to 2025, Betsy launched and led Bridgespan’s Impact Capital Practice.

From 2014 to 2018, Betsy was head of Bridgespan’s education practice, supporting numerous efforts to improve educational outcomes, scale effective school models, and support diverse high-quality pipelines of teachers and school leaders. She has coauthored several education-related publications, including "Transforming Schools" (Bain.com, 2016), "Starting Over After Starting Up" (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2015), "Local Philanthropists Work Together to Transform Public Education" (Bridgespan.org, 2014), and "Rethinking High School Turnarounds" (Bridgespan.org, 2013). She is also coauthor of one of Bridgespan’s most widely read management publications, "Business Planning for Nonprofits" (Bridgespan.org, 2006).

Betsy graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University. She also received both an MBA and an MEd from Stanford University. She currently serves on the boards of the International Refugee Assistance Program and Graywolf Press.