About BPE

icon_headerBoston Plan Board of Trustees

The Boston Plan for Excellence is guided by a volunteer board of trustees who represent Boston’s corporate, higher education, foundation, and civic communities.

 

Maura Banta, Corporate Community Relations Manager,IBM Corporation

John Barros, Executive Director, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

Thomas Birmingham, Senior Counsel, Edwards Angell Palmer and Dodge LLP

Richard Burnes, Founding Member and General Partner, Charles River Ventures

John Fish, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Suffolk Construction Company, Inc.

Robert E. Gallery, Massachusetts President, Bank of America (Chair)

Charles K. Gifford, Chairman, Bank of America

Reverend Gregory Groover, Pastor, Charles Street AME Church

Ellen Guiney, Senior Advisor, Boston Plan for Excellence

Joanna Jacobson, Founder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners

Dr. Carol Johnson, Superintendent, Boston Public Schools (ex officio)

Bob Schwartz, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Jesse Solomon, Executive Director, Boston Plan for Excellence

Micho Spring, Chairperson of Global Corporate Practice and President of New England Operations, Weber Shandwick Worldwide, Inc.

Alberto Vasallo III, Vice President and Publisher, El Mundo

Our Core Partner
The Boston Teacher Residency is a joint initiative of the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE) and is housed at BPE.

The Boston Plan for Excellence is working to make sure every child in Boston receives an excellent education. As a local education fund and nonprofit, we seek and support innovative solutions to the toughest problems faced by Boston’s students, their teachers, and the school system as a whole.

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