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All Raise<\/a>\u2019s interim CEO Paige Hendrix Buckner has now dropped the \u201cinterim,\u201d according to the nonprofit\u2019s blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hendrix Buckner joined the organization, which supports women founders and funders, as chief of staff in early 2022 and stepped in as interim CEO in January following the resignation<\/a> of former CEO Mandela S.H. Dixon. Prior to joining All Raise, Hendrix Buckner worked with Dixon at Founder Gym, an online training center for underrepresented founders.<\/p>\n As of January, the nonprofit had raised $11 million in funding and was operating regional chapters in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC, and was working on one in Miami.<\/p>\n Since taking the helm, Hendrix Buckner got the Miami chapter<\/a> going in late January, \u201crelaunched its VC Cohorts program for partner and principal level investors, expanded the VC Champions mentorship program and launched our first national Black and Latinx Media Mastery<\/a> program,\u201d All Raise said in the blog post.<\/p>\n In Hendrix Buckner\u2019s own blog post<\/a>, she wrote that All Raise has 24,000 people in its network and that she\u2019s \u201cpassionate about building community,\u201d which Heidi Patel, a VC Cohorts volunteer, also noted in All Raise\u2019s blog post<\/a>, \u201cWe needed someone who can break down barriers, build bridges across deep divides, and infuse pure joy into the challenging work we do together. I have been in the trenches with Paige \u2014 she brings all that and more.\u201d<\/p>\n As colleague Natasha Mascarenhas noted in her January story, the nonprofit has goals that include increasing the amount of seed funding that goes to female founders from 11% to 23% by 2030, and doubling the percentage of female decision-makers at U.S. firms by 2028.<\/p>\n Hendrix Buckner told TechCrunch that All Raise \u201cis not just an organization, it\u2019s a movement,\u201d and that those \u201cwere aspirational goals for everyone in the ecosystem.\u201d In order for the nonprofit to move forward successfully and to grow, All Raise will be operating in three buckets:<\/p>\n\n