PMP Team
Amanda Greco
Amanda
Greco is assistant director of the Public Management Program's (PMP) Service
Learning Program in the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate
School of Business. Launched in 2006, the Service Learning Program offers
domestic and international opportunities for GSB students to work with
leading social entrepreneurs addressing some of the world's most pressing
social and environmental concerns. As assistant director, Amanda manages
these experiences from conceptualization to execution, in collaboration
with social entrepreneurs, faculty, students, staff and alumni. She evaluates
and conducts due diligence on partner organizations, orchestrates trip
itineraries and logistics, and coordinates service opportunities tailored
to each local context. She is responsible for managing internal and external
communications about the program, supporting follow-up projects between
students and partner organizations, and evaluating the program's outcomes
and effectiveness.
Prior to joining Stanford, Amanda worked for the Ford Foundation's Media, Arts and Culture Department and Committee on Indigenous People. Her work there focused on strengthening nonprofit organizational capacity and leveraging the foundation's grantmaking to create a national fund in support of native arts. Amanda also worked at a nonprofit incubator called Blue Ridge Foundation New York, where she provided strategic support to a portfolio of social entrepreneurs in modeling, marketing, and executing their ideas around social change.
Amanda brings international social enterprise experience to the PMP from her experience at Novica.com, a for-profit platform connecting artists and artisans from developing countries with the global market. While at Novica, Amanda managed human resources, product sourcing and distribution, customer service, logistics, and strategic relations on an international scale, and worked abroad in Novica's Peru, India and Morocco offices. As a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, Amanda lived for one year in Chile, where she partnered with the Valparaiso Foundation on a project to strengthen economic revitalization in an effort that ultimately resulted in Valparaiso's recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
While pursuing her MPA, specializing in international development, at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, Amanda interned at the United Nations Capital Development Fund, Rainforest Alliance, and Trickle Up. Amanda earned a BA in Communications Studies and minored in Spanish literature at UCLA and studied abroad in Granada, Spain.
