Margaret Hall

Margaret co-founded the GreenLight Fund in Boston in 2004 with venture capitalist John Simon and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer.

The GreenLight Fund raises and invests funds to open opportunities for children, youth and families facing barriers to prosperity through an innovative, locally-driven approach that targets social innovations where they are needed most. The GreenLight Fund currently operates in ten cities and is expanding at a rate of one community per year. Across its sites, the GreenLight Fund’s portfolio now consists of 33 high-performing nonprofits reaching more than 325,000 low-income children, youth and families annually.

Before co-founding the GreenLight Fund, Margaret was a Fellow at the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and earlier served as Associate Director of the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, where she launched the public policy program.

She is a member of Lead Boston and Leadership Georgia, received the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award from the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta and was named one of 10 Outstanding Atlantans. She chaired the Boards of CityCares (now Hands On Network) and Hands On Atlanta and served on the Boards of Social Venture Partners-Boston and Boston Cares.

Margaret earned an M.P.A. at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. from the University of Georgia.