Co-Founder, Local Code

Over the last three decades Jeff Mendelsohn has been a social entrepreneur, advisor, and investor in social enterprises, playing a leadership role in impactful movements to align business with positive social and environmental outcomes. Jeff first received national recognition for his role in transforming the paper industry toward sustainability as CEO and Founder of New Leaf Paper. Presently, he practices regenerative development in urban communities that have long been subjected to profound structural inequities. He seeks to help these communities build wealth and wellbeing through local ownership of real estate and businesses.

Along with other socially responsible business leaders, Mendelsohn spent three days in the Anza Borrego desert with the B Corporation founders prior to its launch, helping bring B Corporation into being. Jeff signed the B Corporation Declaration of Interdependence and New Leaf Paper became a Founding B Corporation in 2007.

Jeff is 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

Over the last three decades Jeff Mendelsohn has been a social entrepreneur, advisor, and invest.