Christopher Lindsay, Director, Charity Assessment & Impact

Christopher Lindsay’s experience includes serving in the lead White House office for nonprofit policy issues. While there he played a pivotal role analyzing data and reporting trends on more than 25,000 nonprofits who partnered with the government in providing social services – representing billions of dollars. In this capacity, he also gained extensive policy experience on issues such as refugee resettlement, childhood mentoring, and prisoner re-entry.

Most recently, as director of programs at ESFI, he implemented successful partnerships with a number of Fortune 500 corporations which resulted in the nonprofit’s record-breaking fundraising. During his tenure with the foundation, Lindsay also established a new research arm, delivered its first federal grant as well as developed its most successful public and media outreach campaign to date.