“Jim Shelton is the president and chief investment and impact officer of Blue Meridian Partners, a poverty-focused collaborative of heavy-hitting donors that, among other things, gives serious money to place-based, multisector partnerships, as I wrote recently. Shelton has an unusually multisector background himself. He oversaw education funding at both the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and spent time in private industry working in educational technology and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. On the government side, he served as assistant deputy and then deputy secretary and COO of the U.S. Department of Education under President Barack Obama.”