WHITNEY WILLIAMS
Grand Plan: The Williamsworks founder helps the high-profile (Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton) put their money and influence to seriously good use.
Making Headlines: With Ben Affleck, she co-founded the Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI), which oversees millions in grants and lobbies Washington (leading President Obama to commit $271 million to the region). With Starbucks, ECI has revitalized the Congolese coffee market, allowing 4,500 farmers to triple their income.
CHEVENEE REAVIS
Grand Plan: Ensure safe water and the dignity of a toilet for all.
Making Headlines: Matt Damon (right) and Gary White are the faces of Water.org, and Reavis is their right hand. The former consultant for the CDC and Gates Foundation provides strategic counsel to these co-founders.
MARK DALEY & GREG PROPPER
Grand Plan: Help brands and celebs effect social change.
Making Headlines: The Propper Daley agency has landed on the speed dial of many a Hollywood star and exec thanks to its founders' expertise in politics, business, and the nonprofit sector. Clients range from Bradley Cooper (eradicating blood cancer) to John Legend (ending mass incarceration) to the Clintons (the agency helped their foundation's Too Small to Fail initiative integrate content about the importance of reading and talking to infants into TV shows like Orange Is the New Black).
TOBY E. BOSHAK
Grand Plan: Giving promising theater, dance, and film artists the support to send them into the stratosphere.
Making Headlines: On behalf of Prince Albert and the royal family of Monaco, the executive director of the publicly funded Princess Grace Foundation-USA has increased the amount awarded nearly sixfold. She also displays an impressive nose for talent: Beneficiaries have included Oscar Isaac, Cary Fukunaga, and Leslie Odom Jr.
