Sloane Davidson is the Founder and CEO of Hello Neighbor, a nonprofit organization that works to improve the lives of recently resettled refugee families by matching them with dedicated neighbors to guide and support them in their new lives.
Prior to starting Hello Neighbor, Sloane worked for fifteen years across the intersection of philanthropy and digital marketing. She has worked with nonprofits, NGOs and for-profit businesses in a wide range of capacities including branding, business development, capacity building, communications, corporate social responsibility partnerships and campaigns, event production and fundraising.
For eight years, she created and led one of the leading cause blogs on the Internet called The Causemopolitan. She currently sits on the Board of Resolve Network, an NGO based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that focusing on jobs for women in post-conflict countries through microfinance, and the prestigious Indiana University’s Lilly School of Philanthropy Women’s Philanthropy Institute. She was a 2009 Kiva Fellow in the Philippines and has been invited to speak on her activism at The Clinton Global Initiative and The World Economic Forum.
At a dinner party Sloane would talk about her love of presidential libraries and their impact on today’s society, the rise of urban agriculture and what we can learn from agrarian communities, criminal justice reform and in particular bond reform, her rotation of favorite podcasts and her most recent baking project that is probably still cooling in her kitchen.
After fifteen years in cities including Burlington, Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Manila and New York City, Sloane was thrilled to return to her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in fall of 2015 where she currently resides with her entrepreneurial husband, two sons and overly affectionate dog.
"Oh my sweet little farm what would I not give to enjoy thee without interruption."John Adams, 1793
Current
Past Online/Offline Experiences
- And/And Podcast, Forbes Network
- Cause It's My Birthday
- Civic Leadership Academy, City of Pittsburgh
- CrisisCampNOLA
- Digitini
- DinnerMode
- Farsight Media
- Giving Manifesto
- Gulf Coast Benefit
- Heart of Haiti
- Hill Hollow Farm
- Kiva Fellowship
- NOLAlicious
- Shadyside Farmers Market
- The Causemopolitan
- World Economic Forum Citizen Journalist
Graduate Of
- Shadyside Academy
- Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics, University of Vermont
- Masters of Public Policy & Management, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Advisor + Board of Directors
- Modern Loss
- Resolve Network
- Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University
Speaking
- SXSW
- Social Media Week
- Philanthropy Day NY
- Women’s Philanthropy Symposium
- United Nations
- World Bank
- CalTech
- New York University
- Columbia University
Writing
- GOOD
- Forbes
- Modern Loss
- PopTech
- TechCocktail
- The Muse
- TuesNight
- United Nations
Past Clients
- JPMorgan Chase
- United Airlines
- Verizon Wireless
- Elizabeth Arden
- philosophy
- Paul Mitchell
- Keds
- IKEA