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Boston Learning Center
Ayéle Shakur,
Executive Director
Gary Bracey,
BIFF Project Director
p : 617 265 7170
e : bosLearn
w : website
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Social Issue: Education
Mission: Through the BIFF Paradigm Project, a groundbreaking initiative, we intend to challenge and replace the
crippling culture of underachievement in Boston’s middle and high schools by transforming student
motivation and helping students to reclaim ownership of the learning process. Transforming schools
by transforming failing students into motivated, self-directed, energetic learners is the most effective
route to real urban education reform.
Project: BIFF Earned Income Strategy—to develop an earned income
strategy that will help sustain the anticipated growth and replication of The BIFF Paradigm Project
over the next 3 – 5 years.
Coach: Don Hurwitz, Consultant and Joe Ternullo, Partners Healthcare
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Haley House
Kathe McKenna,
Executive Director
p : 617 236 8132
e : kmckenna
w : website
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Social Issue: Employment Transition
Mission: Haley House is a community that ministers to the needs of society's forgotten people,
challenges the structures that create violence, and offers alternatives to the attitudes that
perpetuate suffering. The Bakery at Haley House is a business used as a vehicle for teaching
skills and fresh habits of mind to under-employed adults and teenagers. It has shared kitchen
space with Haley House's soup kitchen since its inception. Growing the bakery's business has
been one of our primary goals because it enables us to incorporate more trainees and
underwrite more expenses.
Project: Moving The Bakery at Haley House forward—to evaluate and plan the bakery's growth
including a move to its own dedicated space.
Coach: Ginna Zinke, Chief Strategy Officer, Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
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Eagle Eye Institute
Anthony Sanchez,
Co-Founder & Executive
Director
p : 617 666 5222
e : eaglei
w : website
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Social Issue: Environmental Leadership
Mission: Eagle Eye Institute is dedicated to developing and disseminating
innovative environmental education programs that transform the lives of urban youth. Eagle Eye
provides proven hands-on exploratory learning programs that take place in nature. Our programs
build awareness, develop responsibility, and cultivate leadership in urban youth.
Project: Wings Initiative: Learn About Forests(TM)—a programmatic model that uses the power of nature
to transform urban youth. We plan to grow and support a national network of community partners and natural
resource professionals, who are committed to using our Learn About Forests program in their urban communities to build environmental awareness, develop
environmental responsibility, and cultivate environmental leadership in urban youth who
traditionally do not have access to the outdoors.
Coach: Lisa Ulrich, Director Teaching Fellows Program, Citizen Schools
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Madison Park/ACT Roxbury
Jeanne Pinado,
Executive Director
Candelaria Silva,
Director, ACT Roxbury
p : 617 541 3900
e : jpinado
w : website
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Social Issue: Arts/Economic Development
Mission: Madison Park seeks to build the physical, economic, social and cultural
renaissance of Roxbury. ACT Roxbury uses the arts and culture to enrich and strengthen the
physical, economic and social revitalization of the Dudley Square Business District and Lower
Roxbury community by engaging and cultivating cultural businesses, artists and institutions as
economic resources and community assets.
Project: ACT Roxbury Strategy for Program Revenue Growth—Madison Park's ACT
Roxbury program seeks to develop strategies to grow current and potential sources of non-grant
revenue including, but not limited to, advertising and event sponsorship fees, membership dues,
ticket sales and other program revenue.
Coach: Drew Tulchin, Consultant and Allan Cohen, Consultant
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Social Capital, Inc.
David Crowley,
President and Founder
p : 781 935 2244
e : dcrowley
w : website
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Social Issue: Civic Engagement
Mission: Social Capital, Inc. (SCI) is building a network of communities working
together to develop and implement successful approaches to building social capital. Each SCI
project will respond to local needs and build upon existing community infrastructure. At the
same time, the local SCI sites will reap value through participating in a national learning network
that facilitates sharing of effective strategies and program models.
Project: Growing Social Capital—to develop a plan for Social Capital's initial
phase of growth, which will result in a network of communities working to build social capital
and increase civic engagement.
Coach: Howard Wolk, Cross Country Group and Janet Bailey, Consultant
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Year Up
Gerald Chertavian,
Executive Director
Matt McCann,
Director of Development
p : 617 542 1533
e : mmccann
w : website
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Social Issue: Workforce Development
Mission: To prepare urban young adults for life and work in our technology-driven society and to guide
urban young adults toward successful and rewarding careers and higher education. Year Up is a one-year,
intensive training program that provides urban young adults, ages 18-24, with a combination of hands on
skill development, college credits, and real work apprenticeships in the 21st century Economy.
Project: Staffing Assessment and Development Project—review Year Up's organizational structure,
staffing levels, job responsibilities and staff development relative to our size and to other similar
organizations and make recommendations for improvements.
Coach: Madeline McNeely, Consultant and Austin Westerling, Charles River Ventures
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