Butch Trusty

Butch Trusty is a partner in Bridgespan’s New York office and co-leads the firm’s education area of expertise. Since joining the organization in 2008 and rejoining in 2018, he has led client engagements with a range of nonprofit and foundation clients, particularly those focused on educational equity, economic mobility, advocacy, and place-based change. Butch has supported local and national multi-donor funds investing in academic acceleration, mental health supports, talent pipelines, and new school creation in urban school districts. In addition, he has worked with the local chapter of a national civil rights organization seeking to develop a citywide strategy to improve economic mobility of Black residents and an emerging organization convening leaders to advance policies and practices to increase Black wealth. His clients have included, among others, Charter School Growth Fund, Youth Guidance, NAF, Alliance for Safety and Justice, GLAAD, and Black Economic Alliance.

Butch is also a coach in Bridgespan’s Leading for Impact® program, supporting the capacity-building efforts of nonprofit executive teams.

Between 2014-2018, Butch was managing partner at Education Cities, a national network of local education venture philanthropy organizations. While there, Butch oversaw all the activities to accelerate the impact of the network’s members, including providing strategic advising services to local leaders to develop citywide high-quality school plans, and developing a national human capital investment community of practice. Butch also previously served as the education program director at The Joyce Foundation, investing $10 million per year to improve the quality of teachers and charter schools in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and in other states nationally. Prior to Bridgespan, Butch held positions at the Alliance for Excellent Education, as an Education Pioneers Fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and at EdisonLearning.

Butch serves on the boards of the National AIDS Memorial, The Equity Lab, and brightbeam. Butch holds MBA and MPP degrees from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University.