After college, Kluge worked for several think tanks, including the anti-poverty think tank Rock and Wrap it Up, and the EastWest Institute, where he was made program coordinator for the institute's cybersecurity initiative.[9][10]
Kluge founded Eirene, an angel investment firm that supports social causes and provides consulting services on cause marketing and analytic giving.[2] One of his investments is Fonderie 47, a social enterprise that recovers weapons from conflict zones and melts them down to produce luxury items such as watches and accessories.[11] In 2012, he co-founded Toilet Hackers, a social enterprise building sanitation projects in underdeveloped regions that lack adequate access to toilets.[12] He also launched the first worldwide "Toilet Hackathon," in partnership with the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to gather entrepreneurs worldwide to brainstorm for global sanitation problems.[3]
In 2018, he launched the Refugee Investment Network, a philanthropy that directs private capital to refugee entrepreneurs. It has secured more than $200 million in commitments as of 2018 and aims to mobilize at least $1 billion in investment by 2030.[13]
Kluge is married to Christine Mahoney, a professor of public policy and politics at the University of Virginia.[18][19] The couple have co-founded the Alight Fund, an investment platform for refugee entrepreneurs.[20]
Kluge inherited his father's estate in Virginia, but it was sold to The Trump Organization who previously purchased his mother's adjacent vineyard and winery operations that became the Trump Winery.[21][22][23] In 2017, after President Donald Trump announced a tariff against Mexican products, Kluge raised $25,000 as a proposal for a flag-raising ceremony in front of the winery to celebrate Mexican-American partnership.[24] In 2021, he helped launch the "truth farm," a public art installation dedicated to conversations about immigration, next to the Trump family winery.[25]
