PARTNERS AND ADVISORS
Implementation Partners
Barbers for Health
Bethel AME Church
Boston Centers for Youth & Families (27 Community Centers)
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston Children’s Museum
Boston Medical Center
Boston NAACP
Boston Public Health Commission
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Brookside Community Health Center
Children’s Services of Roxbury
City Hall to Go
Codman Square Health Center
Congregation Lion of Judah
Countdown to Kindergarten
The Dimock Center
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
East Boston Family Engagement Network
Families First
Family Nurturing Center
Fields Corner Children Thrive
First Teacher
Martha Eliot Health Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
MassHousing
Mattapan Community Health Center
Mattapan Family and Community Network
Mattapan’s Finest
Mayor's Office of New Bostonians
MIT-Haiti Initiative
Nurtury
Partners HealthCare
Project Hope
Raising a Reader
ReadBoston
Roxbury Presbyterian Church
South Boston Neighborhood House
Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center
Thom Child and Family Services
Whittier Street Health Center
United South End Settlements
Urban Pride
Black Philanthropy Fund Trustees
Sen. William “Mo” Cowan (Retired), Senior Vice President and COO, ML Strategies LLC
Ruth Ellen Fitch, Independent Director/Trustee
Robert Gittens, Vice President for Public Affairs, Northeastern University
Jeff Howard (Chair) President, The Efficacy Institute
Reverend Ray Hammond, Pastor, Bethel AME Church
Wendell Knox, Retired President and CEO, Abt Associates
Jacqui Lindsay, President, Innovation by Design
Jeri Robinson, Vice President, Education and Family Learning, Boston Children’s Museum
Ayele Shakur, Regional Executive Director, BUILD Boston; Chair, Education Committee, NAACP Boston
Margaret Daniels Tyler, Philanthropic Advisor/Education Strategist, Strategic Consulting Network, Inc.
Content Advisors
Frank Farrow, Director, Center for the Study of Social Policy
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Bearsdley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
Portia Kennel, Senior Vice President, Program Innovation, Ounce of Prevention Fund and Executive Director, Educare Learning Network
Susan Landry, Director and Founder, Children’s Learning Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Susan Levine, Rebecca Anne Boylan Professor of Education and Society, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
Karen Mapp, Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Pamela Morris, Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University
Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Cybele Raver, Vice Provost for Research and Faculty Affairs, New York University
Meredith Rowe, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ralph Smith, Senior Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation and Managing Director, Campaign for Grade Level Reading
Joshua Sparrow, Director, Brazelton Touchpoints Center, Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dana Suskind, Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago Medical School
Catherine Tamis-LeMonda, Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University
Rick Weissbourd, Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Institutional Funders
Abt Associates Inc.
Barr Foundation
Black Philanthropy Fund
Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation
EdVestors, Inc.
Eos Foundation
Ford Foundation
Latino Legacy Fund
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
NEA Foundation
Partners HealthCare
W.K. Kellogg Foundation