Ms. Abbott has a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. from Duke University.  She received her J.D. from the Duke University School of Law.  She is a member of the Boston Bar Association, Boston Estate Planning Council, Planned Giving Group of New England and the Council on Foundations Philanthropic Advisors Network.  She has spoken on estate planning and charitable giving topics and co-authored articles on estate tax and exempt organization topics. 

Mr. Aronson is the Treasurer of the ESC Board of Directors. He is a CPA and Vice President at Alexander, Aronson, Finning & Co., P.C. He is involved in all aspects of the firm's practice and heads the firm's Financial Planning Services Committee. Mr. Aronson is nationally recognized for his work with nonprofit organizations. With many of his clients involved in the nonprofit area, his areas of expertise include schools, community health centers, community development corporations, foundations and social service agencies. In addition to his volunteer work with ESC, he serves as a Trustee of World Unity, lnc. and has been active in the United Way of Massachusetts Bay. Mr. Aronson is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Ms. Baugh has served on the Boards of the Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, Partner's Health Care System, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Endicott College, The Medical Foundation and Children's Hospital.

Ms. Becker of Providence, Rhode Island is an active Lead Consultant for Executive Service Corps of New England.  An executive in the investment banking industry, Ms. Becker was formerly a strategic advisor to global energy companies and was a founding Partner and Managing Director of New Harbor Incorporated.   Prior to New Harbor, she was with the Corporate Finance group at Morgan Stanley & Co. for many years.  She has served as both a member of the Board of Directors for various high-tech startup companies as well as an advisor to numerous Boards in the public and private sectors. 

In his tenure with Holland Mark, he served as Vice President of Sales, Vice President of Marketing, Executive Vice President, and was appointed President in 1993 in recognition of his leadership and contribution to the organization’s growth.   In his various roles Mr. Colbert developed significant expertise in consumer brand strategies and integrated communications from his work with Blue Cross, TJ Maxx, Universal Studios, Ameritech, Polaroid, Liberty Mutual, and the Boston Globe; in database and relationship marketing, working with brands like Polaroid, Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA), Scholastic, and Compaq; and a strong competency in addressing the challenges and opportunities in the interactive realm, from his direct involvement with polaroidworks.com, tjmaxx.com, student.com, and redlobster.com.

In addition to his leadership responsibilities, Mr. Colbert is Chairman Emeritus of the Advertising Club of Greater Boston, a member of the boards of the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston and the Greater Boston Food Bank. He received a BA in History from Connecticut College and an International MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

Ms. Curley brings over 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector concentrated in the areas of community service and volunteerism, public policy and aging services. She led a variety of direct service organizations including an adult day care center and a volunteer program for older adults in New York City. As Director of Public Policy for the Community Service Society of New York, Ms. Curley led a research and advocacy department concentrating on housing, education, health care and job security issues facing urban poor people. Most recently she served as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Service Alliance, a nonprofit organization that promotes an ethic of service for people of all ages and distributed $12 million in grants to support AmeriCorps, community service-learning and mentoring programs across the Commonwealth.

Ms. Curley serves on the Boards of Directors of the YWCA of Boston and Boston Cares. She was named a member of the Academy of Women Achievers by the YWCA of New York and was a Fellow at the Hunter College Brookdale Center on Aging. Ms. Curley holds a B.A. in Political Science from Emmanuel College and a Masters in Human Services from Antioch New England Graduate School.

Ms. Desai is the Director of Organizational Development at Citizen Schools, Inc., an innovative program that is revolutionizing the field of out-of-school education.  As the Director of Organizational Development, Anuradha leads the development and fundraising activities for Citizen Schools and maintains senior-level relationships with foundation, corporation, and individual supporters.  She leads and manages a team of six professionals and works closely with the Board of Directors to cultivate and secure major gifts and institutional partnerships.  In her six years at Citizen Schools, Anuradha has helped Citizen Schools to grow its annual fundraising revenues from $850,000 to $7 million and spearheaded a $25 million multi-year investment campaign.  Anuradha is a member of the Citizen Schools Operating Team (senior management team) and Leadership Team.  Anuradha has led several workshops on fundraising over the years.

Prior to joining Citizen Schools in April 1998, Anuradha served as a Director of Special Projects at Tufts University’s Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutritional Policy and the Feinstein International Famine Center for two years.  While at Tufts, Anuradha played a key role in building the organizational capacity of the Famine Center and helped it become a well-known center for research, training and learning in the field of famine and humanitarian assistance.

Before joining Tufts, Anuradha worked at Oxfam America for over a decade, serving in various leadership positions.   Anuradha was trained as an architect before coming to the U.S. in 1983.  She received her graduate degree in urban planning from the Royal Danish Academy in Denmark and her undergraduate degree in Architecture from the Center on Environment, Planning, and Technology in Ahmedabad, India.

After serving as a board member for six years, currently Anuradha serves as an Advisor to Grassroots International’s development committee and as a board member for the Massachusetts Service Alliance. 

Dr. Dinsmoor is a consultant and facilitator working with educational and nonprofit leaders on organizational and management development. Following her tenure as Assistant Superintendent of Student Services for the Wellesley Public Schools she developed a private practice team that consulted to school districts, private schools and educational collaboratives about the effectiveness of special education services. Her repertoire of strategies includes research, publication and presentations at regional and national workshops on systems thinking, as well as training and facilitation in areas of strategic planning and dialogue skills.  She has been an ESC Consultant since 1995.

Ms. Franks joined Bridgestar in 2003 after spending a year volunteering in San Jose, Costa Rica developing a business plan for a start-up business that works with local farmers to promote sustainable agriculture. Prior to her role in Costa Rica, Ms. Franks was a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company, a world-wide management consulting firm. During her time at Bain, Ms. Franks worked with a variety of clients -- both in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors -- across a range of strategic issues.  Ms. Franks graduated with a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia.

Jeff’s fourteen years in the business began planning and buying more than $100 million of media at Hill, Holliday for accounts that included Wang, Lotus and Hyatt hotels. From there he joined technology and B2B specialist DRK Advertising as head of media and research then rolled the dice with start up Cohn Godley Norwood as the fourth member of the team. In addition to running media and research at CGN, Jeff also founded the interactive department at a time when few clients had ever heard of the web. Bringing a marketing discipline to a technology offering, he developed sites that included Chevy Chase Bank, Stein Roe, Web Marketing Association, Salomon Smith Barney, CompUSA and launched the first U.S. based Broadvision sites for Liberty Financial Companies.

After leaving CGN to start his own Internet marketing company and later, a marketing consulting company called Javelin Marketing, Jeff realized there had to be a better model for advertising agencies in this new economy. That is Small Army.

Mr. Golden has over 25 years of experience managing organizations and selling and marketing computer systems and components worldwide. As a former Vice President of the ADE Corporation, he was responsible for general management of an acquisition making magnetic measurements for the disk drive industry. Currently, he is a tour guide for Boston by Foot and the Boston Public Library.  Neil has been an ESC Consultant since 2002.

Ms. Hamacher is a former Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President of Pioneer Investment Management, USA and a former Chief Investment Officer for Prudential Mutual Funds of Prudential Insurance Company of America. Currently, she serves as a Treasurer of On the Rise and of the Guidance Center.  Terry has been an ESC Consultant since July 2003.

Prior to joining Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP and heading up the firm’s governance practice, Scott Harshbarger’s distinguished career in public service included experience as the national President and CEO of Common Cause, Attorney General of Massachusetts, and District Attorney of Middlesex County, among other positions of leadership. 

As President and CEO of Common Cause, Mr. Harshbarger re-energized the nationally recognized, independent government and corporate watchdog group, working to push passage of the landmark federal campaign finance reform legislation, and expanding Common Cause’s agenda to include election reform and its corporate governance initiative.

As a two-term Massachusetts Attorney General (1991-1999), Mr. Harshbarger won national recognition for his work in crime prevention, civil rights and hate crimes enforcement, elder protection, and prosecution of white-collar crime and public corruption. He was the first Attorney General in the nation to work with the health care community to develop hospital and HMO community benefit guidelines, and was one of the nation's first to sue the tobacco industry to help recover smoking-related health care costs.  Mr. Harshbarger was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in 1998.

Before his election as Attorney General, Mr. Harshbarger was Middlesex County District Attorney for eight years. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Harshbarger taught legal ethics at Boston University Law School, and was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and Northeastern Law School.

Mr. Haughey is the Customer Account Manager for Computer Warehouse – a Boston area IT service provider.  In 1999, Kevin graduated from the University of Ulster with a Bachelors of Science Degree (Honors) in Computer Science. Kevin has proven experience in the Information Technology field including positions as the Systems Programmer for Microsoft Corporation, Quality Assurance Engineer for a Customer Relationship Management software development company and Systems Administrator responsible for the North American offices for a European based software company. Kevin is the secretary of the Newmarket Business Association and is the administrator of the Boston Charity Events website and newsletter.

Dr. William R. Huss is a Lead Consultant at ESC focusing on strategic planning, organizational design, and mergers and acquisitions for nonprofit organizations.  Prior to joining ESC last year, Dr. Huss was the senior vice president of operations and consulting at XENERGY, Inc., an energy management consulting firm located in Burlington, MA.  Dr. Huss is currently a member of the business faculty at Babson College, Bentley College, and Framingham State College.  He also instructs ESC consultants in meeting facilitation with an emphasis on strategic planning. 

Dr. Huss is Treasurer and a Board member at Codman Community Farms in Lincoln MA and is the Executive Director of the Law, Reed, Huss Farm Foundation in Ohio.  He has previously served as President of the Chelmsford Youth Basketball League, President of the Vance Family Association, and Chairman of the Diaconate at the Chelmsford Central Congregational Church.  Dr. Huss completed his Ph.D. in engineering and management from Ohio State University where he also earned an M.S. in industrial engineering and an M.A. in public administration.  In addition, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Gettysburg College (PA) with a math and physics double major.

Jamie Katz is an Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Public Charities Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General.  He directs the division that registers charities, oversees fundraising on behalf of charities, reviews matters concerning the governance and stewardship of charities, and that handles probate issues involving charities.  He has over twenty years of experience representing parties in civil litigation and also has expertise in Alternative Dispute Resolution, having served as a mediator and arbitrator in numerous cases.  He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School.  Among other positions, he has previously been a partner in a Boston law firm and an attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  Mr. Katz has participated in many seminars and continuing education programs and has published professional articles in the fields of charities, environmental, and disabilities law, as well as in the ADR arena.  In addition, Mr. Katz is the author of two published mystery novels, A Summer for Dying and Dead Low Tide, and numerous personal non-fiction articles and essays.

At The Heller School, she is responsible for the introductory course in children, youth, and families and a course in child health policy. She is the director of the Heller School’s Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy and co-chair of the concentration on children, youth, and families.  She is a Research Professor at both the Dartmouth School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University.  She is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard School of Public Health.  In 1996 she received the Martha May Eliot Award of the American Public Health Association “honoring exceptional health services to mothers and children.”

Ms. Labandibar is founder and president of Computer Warehouse, a ten-year-old firm that provides computer service and support for organizations lacking a full-time IT administrator.  While responsive onsite service and proactive IT planning are core activities for her twelve-person company, she also has a retail store offering custom-built computers and computer repairs for individuals and families.

Prior to joining Lois L. Lindauer Searches in 1998, Ms. Lasman worked in both nonprofit and for profit organizations in the areas of recruitment, training and database administration. Most recently she was the Coordinator of Volunteer Services at the National Council of Jewish Women in Livingston, New Jersey. In this role she developed and managed programs for volunteer recruitment, retention and recognition. Previously she worked with Madsen Personnel where she managed Customer Service for the Temporary Division. A cum laude graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, she is actively involved with the parents' organization at her children's private school.

He is currently a member of the Board of Managers of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. and serves as the founding manager of its Jewish Community Endowment Pool, a not-for-profit asset management enterprise that manages the endowments of nonprofit organizations sponsored by the Jewish community of Boston. He is a current board member of the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and past member of the boards of New England – Israel Chamber of Commerce, the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at Harvard University, and Advent-Israel Venture Capital Fund. Mr. Leifer is a member of Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts where he resides with his wife Marcia and their four children.

Ms. Lindauer is the Director of Lois L. Lindauer Searches, a retained executive search firm focused exclusively on the nonprofit sector.  LLLS serves large entities and small organizations in the education, healthcare, social service and arts sectors.   Her associated activities include the founding and running of Sisters in Development, a networking group that offers women of color working in development the opportunity to meet for support, inspiration and career advancement and the co-founding and leading of The Forum for Women Leaders of Nonprofit Organizations, a peer advisory program for Executive Directors. 

Ms. Lindauer was the Founder and Director of The Diet Workshop and was the first woman in the United State to grow a service business through the franchise system of distribution.  Ms. Lindauer is a graduate of Brandeis University.  A prolific author and frequent public speaker, she has written five books and numerous articles.

Jerry became involved with Big Sister in 1968, when she volunteered as a mentor.  As her enthusiasm, involvement and commitment to the agency intensified, she subsequently became a Board Member, and in 1972, she was elected Board President. In 1984, Jerry was named co-director of the agency, a position she shared for five years until she assumed the role of Executive Director in 1989.  Her experiences as a Big Sister volunteer enable Jerry to be a consummate spokesperson for the agency ... and for mentoring.  She knows firsthand that the Big Sister program “works,” and her experiences being matched with her Little Sister are a source of inspiration to volunteers, board members and donors alike.

Big Sister has made incredible progress since Jerry became a volunteer.  Under Jerry’s leadership, in the last five years Big Sister has doubled in size, expanding its service delivery, growing its operating budget and raising more revenue. The agency has also received recognition for its quality programs and services, including a national award for leadership and growth from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, numerous citations for exemplary efforts by Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and recognition as the Group Work Agency of the Year from the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups (AASWG).  In 2001, the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston marked its 50^th anniversary, celebrating the occasion with the announcement of a major investment from the New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in support of Big Sister’s continued growth.

Jerry enjoys sharing her experiences and expertise with other Big Brother/Big Sister agencies.  She serves as President of the Big Brother-Big Sister Foundation, a joint fundraising venture between Big Sister and Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay that collects used clothing for resale to a retail thrift store operator.  She has served as a leader at all levels with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, including past Chair of the national organization as it reshaped its role and crafted a visionary growth plan for the future.

Jerry has also made an impact outside of the agency to improve the lives of Greater Boston’s girls.  Recognizing that services for girls are often under-funded and under-recognized, she helped form the Girls’ Coalition of Greater Boston, an organization devoted to focusing attention on issues affecting girls; she currently serves as Chair of the Coalition. Jerry is also a frequent workshop presenter at local and national conferences on the value of gender-specific programming and the importance of services for girls.

Jerry serves on a number of organizational boards, including Teen Voices/Women Express, the WGBH Community Advisory Board, the Girls’ Coalition Steering Committee and the Big Brothers Big Sisters Task Force on Services for Girls.  She also served on the Cabinet of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay for two years and was one of ten community leaders selected to represent the City of Boston delegation at the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future.  In 2002, Jerry received the Rose Mary Kirwin Award from the United Way.  This past January, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Women’s Network Advisory Board presented Jerry with the prestigious Pinnacle Award for Achievement in Nonprofit Management.

Jerry received her undergraduate degree in History from Dominican University in Illinois and her Master’s in Education from Boston State College.

Ms. McCormack has twenty-five years of experience leading nonprofit and government organizations in Boston.  She is the Founder of the Neighborhood House Charter School in Dorchester and Founding Executive Director of the Greater Boston Food Bank. Ms. McCormack served for nearly a decade as a senior official in city government including as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Jobs and Community Services where she was instrumental in the establishment of the Boston Adult Literacy Fund, the Boston Employment Commission, the Safe Neighborhoods Fund, Boston Can Share and the Neighborhood Jobs Trust.

Ms. McCormack has served in an executive and consultant capacity to several nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in Boston including the United Way of Massachusetts Bay where she helped guide the establishment of two giving initiatives: the Women’s Leadership Breakfast and the Faith in Action Initiative. Ms. McCormack is a Trustee of the Charles Hayden Foundation and the Schrafft Charitable Trust.  She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (Mass INC) and the Neighborhood House Charter School. 

Today Ms. McCormack is the Faculty Director of the Public and Nonprofit Management Program at Boston University’s School of Management where she teaches Social Entrepreneurship, Management Consulting and other nonprofit management courses.  Ms. McCormack has also taught nonprofit management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at Suffolk University. Ms. McCormack is a graduate of Boston University’s Graduate School of Management where she earned her MBA in 1992.

Ms. O'Donnell is a partner with Articulate Communications, a public relations firm serving technology companies. She is a former Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Red Whistle Communications, a Weber Shandwick company, and Senior Vice President of FitzGerald Communications. Liz is on the Board of Advisors of CitySoft, and has served as a volunteer for Saint Francis House.  She has been an ESC Consultant since August 2003, Liz resides in Dedham, MA.

Roberts graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Business Administration and has more than 15 years experience in financial management and human resource administration.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Freedom House, Inc. a Boston-based organization dedicated to youth development and community capacity building. She has received Outstanding Leadership Awards from the Detroit Public Schools, the Dayton-Hudson Department Store Company and the Efficacy Institute Inc. She has also received citations for Meritorious Service from the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan.

The Big Sister Association of Greater Boston helps girls achieve their full potential through positive mentoring relationships with women.  Begun in 1951, Big Sister celebrated its 50^th Anniversary last year.  The agency serves girls ages 7 to 15 (up to 19 if pregnant or parenting) in Boston and 69 other towns that comprise its service area.  In 2001, Big Sister served an unprecedented 1,442 girls through its community-based, site-based, school-based and group mentoring programs.

Mr. Rosen was the former Public Relations Director of Combined Jewish Philanthropies for 22 years and the New England Director of the American Friends of Hebrew University for 8 years. Al has expertise in marketing and fundraising. He ha been a member of several nonprofit boards, the Public Relations Society of Boston and has been a volunteer docent at Harvard's Peabody Museum and Semitic Museum as well as at Boston's Museum of Science.  An ESC Consultant since 1996, Al resides in Brookline, where he served as Chairman of both the School Committee and the Board of Trustees of the Public Library.

Ms. Rosoff is an ESC volunteer consultant with over 25 years of marketing and advertising experience.  Lyn was Senior Vice President at Arnold Worldwide, managing consumer accounts that included Blue Cross and Blue Shield and McDonald’s.  Lyn currently runs her own consulting business, Second Wind Enterprises, and provides strategic counsel and marketing direction to both nonprofit and for-profit clients. 

Lyn is past chair of the Greater Boston Food Bank and NCCJ board member.  She currently chairs the marketing committee of the United Way of the Greater Seacoast.  Lyn is a recent resident of Kittery, Maine but can often be found in the Boston area.

Prior to joining ESC, Ms. Rubin served as Deputy Director of Project Bread/The Walk for Hunger for nine years.  She previously served as the Director of the Office of Community Economic Development for the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Communities and Development.  She also worked for several years at Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion in the South End of Boston.  Annette has a Master's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Rutgers University and was a Fulbright scholar in Mexico.

Mr. Rucker serves on the Boards of the Massachusetts Mental Health and Substance Abuse Corporation, Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, Massachusetts Board of Community Health Centers, Inc., National Practitioners Network for Fathers and Families, and Columbine Neighborhood Association. In addition, he is an Overseer of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, an Advisor for the Urban Leadership Program of The Simmons College of Social Work, and a Member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Responsible Fatherhood and Family Support.

He has been honored with the Roxbury Chamber of Commerce Community Leadership Award, the Edmond Steel Community Leadership Award, a Boston City Council Citation and was selected as an Earl Warren scholar.  Mr. Rucker received a Master's Degree in City Planning from MIT.

During the 1970's, Dr. Simmons was Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, Director of Financial Aid and Associate Dean for Women’s Education at Radcliffe College and the Registrar for the School of Management, Boston College. She began her career as a Montessori teacher and as a Social Service Supervisor for the Headstart Program.

She is a Trustee or Director for the Boston College Club, the Anna Steams Foundation, Regis College, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Newton Country Day School, Grimes King Foundation, The College Club, Mt. Ida College, Shirley Eustis House, Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society, Manhattanville College, Executive Service Corp of New England and The Education Resources Institute. She is a Trustee Associate, Boston College, Trustee Emeritus, Merrimack College and an Overseer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  Dr. Simmons has received numerous awards and honors, and has published a work on student loans.

Dr. Simmons received her Bachelor’s degree from Manhattanville College. She received a M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Boston College and honorary degrees from Merrimack College and Saint Joseph’s College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Ms. Snowden, a veteran of the banking industry and a nationally recognized leader in urban community development, recently retired from banking after a successful 36-year career.  Most recently, she was Executive Vice President for Bank of America, where she was responsible for strategy development and oversight of 60 plus strategic alliances and partnerships.  Prior to that, she was President of FleetBoston Financial Foundation, where she managed the distribution of $25 million in grants, and earlier served as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of FleetBoston Financial’s Community Investment Group, where she was responsible for directing and investing the bank’s resources into low- and moderate-income communities.

Ms. Snowden joined Bank of Boston in 1968 and served in many capacities through the bank’s numerous mergers, including her membership on Fleet’s Leadership Advisory Group.  Under her leadership, innovative financial services were brought to those most in need, and nationally recognized community investment efforts were developed.  Her contributions resulted in the awarding of “Outstanding” Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) ratings at the banks, and the White House Ron Brown Award for Advocating for the Needs of Minority and Low-Income Constituents.

Ms. Snowden is a member of Northeastern University’s Corporation Board, and the boards of Simmons College, the Efficacy Institute, and the national board of Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.  She has received numerous awards, including the Rosoff Diversity Award, honorary doctorates from her alma mater, Simmons College, and several other colleges.  She was named one of the nation’s Top Business and Professional Women by Dollars and Sense magazine, one of 50 African-American Women at the top in corporate America by Ebony magazine, and one of Boston magazine’s 100 most influential women.

Ms. Snowden is the daughter of a long line of community advocates in the Boston area.  Her parents, Otto and Muriel Snowden, were the founders in 1949 of Freedom House, a community center known for its mission of advancing cultural and racial interaction.  Freedom House continues to play a significant role in improving the educational, economic and social climate of Roxbury. Ms. Snowden serves as an emeritus chair of the Freedom House Board of Directors.  Ms. Snowden’s mother Muriel served on the Boston Foundation’s Board of Directors during the 1980s, and Gail Snowden joined the Foundation Board in May, 2002.  She resigned that position upon joining the Foundation’s staff.

Ms. Snowden is a 1967 graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe College and earned an MBA from Simmons Graduate School of Management in 1978.  She currently resides in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Mr. Steinert is a former CEO of The Eastern Company, New England's largest distributor of consumer durable products, including Whirlpool home appliances, RCA consumer electronics, Canon office products, various floor covering products, and computer hardware, among others. Subsequently, he served in various senior positions in the Weld administration, was a contract consultant with The Recovery Group, a turnaround company, as well as with the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and is now a Vice President at O'Conor, Wright, Wyman, Inc., a merger and acquisition firm in Boston. Alan has served on numerous nonprofit boards and been a director on several publicly traded company boards. Alan is currently Vice-Chair of ESC’s Board of Directors and has been an ESC Consultant since 2000.

Ms. Sudders became President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) in February of 2003.  In this capacity, she provides executive leadership to a 126 year old, private non-profit children’s agency dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect.  She strongly advocates for the Commonwealth’s children and families regarding sound public policies, excellent services and the funding necessary to maintain a safety net for our youngest citizens and their families.

Previously, Ms. Sudders was Commissioner of Mental Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for seven years.  In this capacity, she served as the Commonwealth’s chief spokesperson on mental health issues. In May 1999, Ms. Sudders was honored as one of the selected invitees to the first White House Conference on Mental Health.  In June, 2002, she testified before Congress on the issue of criminal justice and mental illness.

Ms. Sudders holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work and a Bachelor’s Degree with honors from Boston University.  She serves on the Governor’s Commission on Children’s Mental Health and the Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence.  She is a member of the National Association of Social Work, the Academy of Certified Social Workers, the Child Welfare League of America and, the Children’s League of Massachusetts.  She is on the Board of the Pine Street Inn and Massachusetts Association for Mental Health. 

Ms. Sudders has received many awards throughout her career.  She is the recipient of the prestigious 2003 Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Manley/Ziegler award for outstanding public service; the 2004 Friend and Leader award by the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health; and the 2004 Social Worker of the year award from the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.  In the Fall of 2004, she will receive the National Association of Social Workers Foundation’s 2004 Knee/Wittman Outstanding Achievement in Health and Mental Health Policy Award.

Carl Sussman is the principal of Sussman Associates, a Newton, Massachusetts-based management and community development consulting practice.  He has 35 years of nonprofit management, community development and development finance experience.  He has been a consultant for the past 10 years and an executive director for the previous 15 years.