
Trent Stamp
CEO
The Eisner Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA USA
“When you’re young, you have an obligation to yourself and to your family and to your teachers and to your friends to dream big. Go get it.”
The Eisner Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA USA
“When you’re young, you have an obligation to yourself and to your family and to your teachers and to your friends to dream big. Go get it.”
CEO
I help a charity foundation decide which nonprofit organizations are the best fit for our grants.
At the simplest level, I'm a grant-maker. The foundation gives grants to nonprofit organizations to put towards their various causes. We focus on intergenerational programs, which bring older and younger people together for the enrichment of their communities. My role is primarily about deciding which organizations will be the best vehicles for our investments to make that enrichment happen. Day to day, I do a lot of writing and speaking. I also spend time helping to manage our funds.
Here's the first step for everyone
If you want to work in the nonprofit sector, you'll need to accept that you may not make as much money as you might in the for-profit world and that your life will be public if you intend to lead in this space. If you can accept that, nonprofit work is an amazing path. The psychic payout is unmatched—you get to make the world a better place by job definition! The best advice I can give for any industry is to network. Meet as many people as you can and try to learn whatever you can from them.
"You're obviously not a serious student. If you're going to flunk out of a college, you might as well flunk out of a higher rated one."