Amy Kincaid is Founder and Principal of ChangeMatters, Benefit LLC, a social enterprise consultancy that works with entrepreneurs, executives, advisors, funders, and investors in both tax-exempt social enterprises and not-just-for-profit socially-responsible businesses.
Amy has been responsible for securing over $66 million for nonprofit organizations working on economic development, arts and culture, sustainability, and international development in a range of organizations with budgets of less than $100,000 to over $12 million and worked on several start-up organizations, turnarounds, and collaborations between local businesses and nonprofit organizations
Amy developed the grantmaking program for the 1st US-Soviet foundation; worked with organizations in Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary, and Albania; built one of the earliest online employment listing services (specializing in social service and social change jobs); and has presented hundreds of times on planning, strategy, program design, turnarounds, social enterprise, and funding.
Born and raised in Kansas City, MO in a family of main street entrepreneurs, she now lives in a small town on the edge of Washington, DC in busy home where she battles clutter and the tyranny of children’s sport and music schedules. Amy serves on the Board of Directors for Pyramid Atlantic, is an exhibiting artist, and curates an alternative gallery and performances at a local café.
