Amplifi's Founder, Jill Bauman, Honored with Yale SOM's Highest Alumni Award

We are proud to announce that our Founder and CEO, Jill Govan Bauman, has been named by the Yale School of Management (SOM) a Donaldson Fellow.  This is the highest award given by the school to an alum recognizing them as embodying the school mission to educate leaders for business and society.

Left to Right: Martine Singer, President of Children's Institute, presenting Donaldson Fellow award to Jill Bauman.

Bill Donaldson, founding Dean of the Yale School of Management (SOM), believed that lived experience perspective from all three sectors, public, private and nonprofit combined with inclusive and collaborative organizational behavioral management training, and excellent business skills would create Leaders for Business & Society.  The Donaldson Fellows, and SOM graduates in general, are a testament to the power of his vision.  

Jill's award was presented to her by current Donaldson Fellow, Martine Singer, CEO of Children's Institute.  It was part of a Day in Residence with SOM leadership, staff, current Fellows and students.  

Jill Bauman speaking at the '26 Donaldson Fellow Program

Jill's remarks began with "I am, of course, incredibly honored to become a Donaldson Fellow, but what I am most proud of is having gone to a business school that would choose to award the kind of work that I do."   

Left to Right: John Conley '85, Pam Farr '78, Jane Donaldson, Anna Blanding '09, Kalil Diaz '14, Jill Bauman '87

Amplifi's mission is co-design technology tools to simplify the complex process of connecting people to needed and available resources.  Amplifi, and our Benefit Navigator, was co-designed by non-profit and government social workers and their clients alongside top-level technologist.  Our purpose is to fuel the agency, economy mobility and wellness of beneficiaries, case workers, their supervisors and leaders.  Our vision is a world where technology opens doors to essential resources – transforming challenges into pathways toward resilience and possibility.             

Jill Bauman with Dean Kerwin Charles

As a non-profit, so far we have helped tens of thousands of households increase their potential incomes, wellness, and wages by hundreds of millions of dollars a year and we have our eye millions of people and hundreds of billions in impact.