Dustin Shay

Senior Director of Capital Initiatives

Dustin Shay connects capital to positive social and environmental impact, driven by the belief that alpha scales with value to society.

As the senior director of capital initiatives, he backs emerging impact fund managers with lines of credit and other services to help them launch, manage, and scale their investment firms. Prior to joining Mission Driven Finance, he spent 13 years working with pioneering impact investing organizations to develop new strategies and partnerships to scale support for social innovators. He was most recently head of corporate partnerships with Acumen, developing strategies and partnerships to expand entrepreneur access to early, patient capital. Prior to that, he supported programmatic strategy, grantmaking operations, and investment deal flow with the Sorenson Impact Group, taking a multi-pronged approach to building a more inclusive innovation economy. Earlier in his career, he led partnership and new initiative development with Village Capital, scaling the organization to reach 1,400+ social entrepreneurs across 40+ countries.

Dustin is a board member of the Black Innovation Alliance, founder of the philanthropic consulting firm Shay Impact, and is passionate about finding new opportunities to partner to scale impact.