Deidre Lind

A Better Impact

2025 HALO Award Selection Committee

Deidre co-founded the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles in 2014 as a platform for public/private
partnerships focused on innovation and effectiveness and led the organization through its
unprecedented COVID-19 response efforts. In 2023, Deidre and the Fund received Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies award for social impact. In 2019, she created and served as the founding Executive Director of the California Volunteers Fund in partnership with the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom. She built her career over two decades leading corporate responsibility and philanthropy programs, including serving for a decade as Mattel’s chief global social impact strategist where she launched their two-percent pre-tax profit annual commitment, and delivered the Company’s first global sustainability assessment. In 2018, Deidre served as the President of the Pfaffinger Foundation, one of the oldest private foundations in Southern California, where she led a change transformation process for the organization. In addition, she has consulted to a number of corporate and nonprofit clients and government entities.