Ben Hecht

Working with Courageous Leaders to Dream Big & Do Big Things

MY EXPERIENCE

I am currently the Principal/Founder of Reclaiming the Dream LLC, an advisory services firm that works with courageous social change leaders across the United States. Most recently, I was President and CEO of Living Cities, a long-standing collaborative of 18 of the world’s leading foundations and financial institutions.

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MY FOCUS

I am working with courageous leaders across the nation to revive America as the land of opportunity–to reclaim the American Dream for all. The systems that influence overall life outcomes — that result in better education, more income, increased wealth, and greater access to opportunity, –are deeply interrelated, broken and must be fixed.

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Fixing Broken Systems with Courageous Leadership

I’ve spent the last 14 years working to understand what it takes for communities to move from incremental to transformational change.

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Centering Racial Equity

In addition to working together in new ways to create systemic change, partners must be able to develop, execute and assess the impact of strategies through a racial equity lens. This lens enables communities to move beyond Band-Aid fixes and to attack inequality at its roots.

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Transforming Capital and Capitalism for the New Majority

Impact investing has come of age. We must make it easy for the capital of a growing number of investors seeking to generate social, environmental, and financial impact to super-charge the closing of racial gaps in income and wealth.

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DO BIG THINGS, TOGETHER

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I provide strategic advice to a wide range of clients, from philanthropic and local government leaders to investors and fund managers seeking greater social impact. I also design and deliver trainings and courses, from half-day corporate workshops to semester long courses. Please contact me below if you would like to explore working together.