The Founder

The Founder, Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist Lynne Twist — a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author — has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work.

Lynne has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership with many global initiatives including: ending world hunger, protecting the world’s rainforests, empowering indigenous peoples, improving health, economic, and political conditions for women and children, advancing the scientific understanding of human consciousness, creating a sustainable future for all life.

An original staff member of The Hunger Project, an organization started in 1977 to end world hunger, Lynne served as a leader of this global initiative for 20 years. During those years she created and managed the worldwide fundraising operation. As she traveled the world learning how to work in a multitude of different cultures, Lynne developed profound wisdom about our relationship to money and the way it governs, dominates, and stresses our lives.

The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences inspire Lynne’s keynotes and workshops, and are the foundation for her best selling, award winning book The Soul of Money.

Lynne founded the Soul of Money Institute to express her commitment to supporting and empowering people in finding peace and sufficiency in their relationship with money and the money culture.

Lynne and her husband have three adult children and three grandchildren and live in San Francisco, California.

Awards

  • “Woman of Distinction” at the United Nations by the International Health Awareness Network for her work to end hunger
  • 2005 Humanitarian of the Year Award from Youth at Risk
  • Katalysis Foundation’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award
  • Nautilus Book Award: 2004 Grand Prize for The Soul of Money
  • New Dimension Broadcaster Award

Organizations

Lynne Twist and her husband are co-founders of The Pachamama Alliance, an organization with the two-fold mission of:

  • Preserving the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians.
  • Contributing to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.

Lynne is a trustee for the Fetzer Institute, a foundation whose mission is to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness in the emerging global community.

Lynne is a board member for:

  • The Institute of Noetic Sciences
  • Educate Girls Globally

Lynne is an advisory board member for:

  • California Institute of Integral Studies
  • Center for Partnership Studies
  • Challenge Day
  • Global Youth Action Network
  • The Hartley Film Foundation
  • The International Museum of Women
  • K.I.N.D. - Kudirat Institute for Democracy
  • PEACE X PEACE
  • The Sophia Institute
  • Youth for Environmental Sanity

Lynne is also currently a member of:

  • The Social Venture Network
  • The National Society of Fundraising Executives
  • The Transformational Leadership Council