Purpose is infused in everything we do

Amplifier’s success goes beyond the sum of what we do in a given day, week or year. We seek a higher level of connection, to build resilience in ourselves and in others, and to find pathways to make systems work better for everyone. Our lived experience has shown us that when we live and work from a place of meaning, we can succeed in advancing our mission of unleashing human potential.

Building and sustaining relationships that advance our mission

For nearly a decade, Amplifier has been dedicated to working with visionary leaders who bring their passion and commitment to mission-driven work. From the beginning we knew that people matter more than profit, and we have learned along the way that the best method for us to amplify our impact is to help the new wave of social innovators succeed. By combining today’s unprecedented access to capital, networks and technology, we can push forward with steady optimism, confident that tomorrow will be a brighter day.

  • Our Value: Optimism

    Believing change is possible and creating solutions to make it happen.

  • Our Value: Love

    Seeing each person as an irreplaceable and unique gift. Taking action to create shared benefits.

  • Our Value: Integrity

    Creating bonds based on honesty, authenticity and transparency.

  • Our Value: Tenacity

    Creating audacious goals in any circumstance and staying the course until we reach our desired outcomes.

  • Our Value: Partnership

    Working with leaders who use experience and evidence to co-create ideas and solutions that transform the world.

Meet the team

We come from all over the globe. We arrived in different ways with vastly different experiences and expertise. But we share a passion for connecting change-makers and equipping them with the tools to change the world.

Allison Duncan

Founder and CEO

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Allison Duncan is the founder and CEO of Amplifier Strategies. She advises leading organizations working at the intersection of philanthropy, investing and innovation. As a serial social entrepreneur, she co-founded Uplift, a collaborative initiative for poverty alleviation, Impact Atlas, a technology platform for personalized mentoring programs, and Battery Powered, one of the largest and fastest-growing giving clubs in America.

Since 2007, Amplifier has activated more than $500 million and launched new ventures, portfolio strategies, and cutting-edge solutions for influential foundations and organizations around the world. Its clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Erol Foundation, The Skoll Foundation, The Libra Foundation, Battery Powered, Arcus Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund, Swift Foundation, BRAC, Barefoot College and The Nature Conservancy, among others.

Allison began her career in philanthropy with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She served as the Program Director for a $400 million environmental investment and as the Director of Program Finance, where she created a practice to conduct due diligence, measure outcomes, and structure $1 billion in grants and program-related investments. Prior to joining the Moore Foundation, Allison worked at Deloitte in the Carolinas, Russia, New York and Silicon Valley.

Miranda Morris

Operations & Strategy Lead, Anau

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Miranda Morris is a healthcare strategy and operations leader with more than 15 years of experience translating federal and state health policy into practical, sustainable care delivery models. Her work spans value-based care strategy, organizational design, and policy implementation, with a focus on community-based, rural, and safety-net systems.

Miranda currently serves as Operations and Strategy Lead at Anau, where she oversees operating strategy and system execution across care delivery, partnerships, and alternative payment approaches. Her role centers on aligning mission-driven care models with regulatory realities and scalable operations.

Previously, Miranda led strategy for a statewide primary care association, supporting federally qualified health centers through government relations, policy alignment, and private-industry optimization. Earlier in her career, she held senior leadership roles within value-based care and health policy organizations, focusing on ACO operations, clinically integrated network development, and market-level strategy.

 

Florin Tarnovanu

Developer

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Florin Tarnovanu has built web applications and deployed server services for more than 10 years. Based in Romania, Florin joined the Amplifier team to work on developing apps that will change the world, including the latest Beta release of Impact Atlas. Before Amplifier, he maintained the servers, infrastructure and code contributions for Austrian and German government platforms. He routinely works his way through bash commands, monitoring services, syncing databases and implementing new features for open source platforms.

Allison Duncan

Founder and CEO

“Ask me about the power of mission-driven work to affect lasting impact.”

Allison Duncan is the founder and CEO of Amplifier Strategies. She advises leading organizations working at the intersection of philanthropy, investing and innovation. As a serial social entrepreneur, she co-founded Uplift, a collaborative initiative for poverty alleviation, Impact Atlas, a technology platform for personalized mentoring programs, and Battery Powered, one of the largest and fastest-growing giving clubs in America.

Since 2007, Amplifier has activated more than $500 million and launched new ventures, portfolio strategies, and cutting-edge solutions for influential foundations and organizations around the world. Its clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Erol Foundation, The Skoll Foundation, The Libra Foundation, Battery Powered, Arcus Foundation, Resources Legacy Fund, Swift Foundation, BRAC, Barefoot College and The Nature Conservancy, among others.

Allison began her career in philanthropy with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She served as the Program Director for a $400 million environmental investment and as the Director of Program Finance, where she created a practice to conduct due diligence, measure outcomes, and structure $1 billion in grants and program-related investments. Prior to joining the Moore Foundation, Allison worked at Deloitte in the Carolinas, Russia, New York and Silicon Valley.

Miranda Morris

Operations & Strategy Lead, Anau

“Ask me about turning health policy and healthcare finance into systems that work in the real world.”

Miranda Morris is a healthcare strategy and operations leader with more than 15 years of experience translating federal and state health policy into practical, sustainable care delivery models. Her work spans value-based care strategy, organizational design, and policy implementation, with a focus on community-based, rural, and safety-net systems.

Miranda currently serves as Operations and Strategy Lead at Anau, where she oversees operating strategy and system execution across care delivery, partnerships, and alternative payment approaches. Her role centers on aligning mission-driven care models with regulatory realities and scalable operations.

Previously, Miranda led strategy for a statewide primary care association, supporting federally qualified health centers through government relations, policy alignment, and private-industry optimization. Earlier in her career, she held senior leadership roles within value-based care and health policy organizations, focusing on ACO operations, clinically integrated network development, and market-level strategy.

 

Florin Tarnovanu

Developer

“Ask me about how to build large scale apps.”

Florin Tarnovanu has built web applications and deployed server services for more than 10 years. Based in Romania, Florin joined the Amplifier team to work on developing apps that will change the world, including the latest Beta release of Impact Atlas. Before Amplifier, he maintained the servers, infrastructure and code contributions for Austrian and German government platforms. He routinely works his way through bash commands, monitoring services, syncing databases and implementing new features for open source platforms.

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