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Jacob Leif

About Jacob Leif

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Jacob Lief is the founder and CEO of Ubuntu Pathways, a nonprofit organization based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, that provides cradle-to-career care to 2,000 orphaned and vulnerable children and their families. Lief brings over two decades of experience to conversations on philanthropy and social entrepreneurship and has actively called for redefining impact, sustainability, and the theory of “going to scale” in the nonprofit sector. Lief is an Aspen Global Fellow and in 2016 he appeared on Fortune magazine’s “40 Under 40” list of the most influential young people in business.