All Raise interim CEO is now full-time

all go upPaige’s interim CEO Hendrix Buckner has now removed the “interim,” according to the nonprofit. blog post.

Hendrix Buckner joined the organization, which supports women founders and funders, as chief of staff in early 2022 and took over as interim CEO in January. after the resignation of former CEO Mandela SH Dixon. Before joining All Raise, Hendrix Buckner worked with Dixon at Founder Gym, an online training center for underrepresented founders.

As of January, the nonprofit had raised $11 million in funding and operated regional chapters in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, and was working on one in Miami.

Since he took the helm, Hendrix Buckner got the miami chapter in late January, it “relaunched its VC Cohorts program for partners and top-tier investors, expanded the VC Champions mentor program, and launched our First National Black and Latino Media Domain program,” All Raise said in the blog post.

In Hendrix Buckner blog postshe wrote that All Raise has 24,000 people in her network and that she is “passionate about building community,” which Heidi Patel, a VC Cohorts volunteer, also noted in the All Raise blog post, “We needed someone who could break down barriers, build bridges across deep divides, and infuse pure joy into the challenging work we do together. I’ve been in the trenches with Paige, she brings all of that and more.”

As colleague Natasha Mascarenhas noted in her January story, the nonprofit has goals that include increasing the amount of seed funding that goes to female founders from 11% to 23% by 2030, and doubling the percentage of women who make decisions in US companies by 2028. .

Hendrix Buckner told TechCrunch that All Raise “isn’t just an organization, it’s a movement” and that those “were aspirational goals for everyone in the ecosystem.” In order for the nonprofit to successfully move forward and grow, All Raise will operate in three categories:

• Infrastructure: Build solid internal and external foundations.
• Community and programming: Hendrix Buckner will tour seven cities to visit members of the community in all its chapters and San Francisco, “to be clear about what our strategy will look like in the coming years.” There are also currently active programs for VC partners and directors, as well as a VC summit coming up in October.
• storyteller All Raise is bringing back its newsletter and certain events, both in person and virtual. “We just launched our ‘Power Conversations’ with some amazing heavyweights,” said Hendrix Buckner. “Lots and lots of work in the next few months.”

Also, All Raise is ending its Check Cashier Investigationand will have new data in a few months, Hendrix Buckner said.

Now that she’s in the job permanently, Hendrix Buckner said she and her team of 10 “can settle in and have some clarity about where we’re going.”

“We are very passionate about long-term intergenerational change,” added Hendrix Buckner. “For us, that means we are passionate about moving money, changing culture, and changing power. I can also tap into what I think is my superpower in building and scaling communities. We will be able to join our community and get the job done because there are so many good things to do.”