About Us
Founded in 1992, The Friday Forum is dedicated to providing advanced educational programs for individuals interested in supporting and developing philanthropy. Originally established as a speaker’s bureau, The Friday Forum has become a well established opportunity for senior development professionals, consultants and non-profit board members to hear presentations by thought leaders from many disciplines. (List of past speakers is attached)
We meet at the Harvard Club in Boston and generally with attendance between 60 and 200 attendees for lunch and the presentation, with five or ten minutes afterwards for Q & A. This is a wonderfully attentive group representing many of the healthcare, academic and cultural organizations in the state and beyond.
Lawrence S Bacow, Ph.D., M.P.P., J.D
President of Tufts University
Richard Boardman
Executive Director, Harvard College Fund
Joseph Breiteneicher
CEO, The Philanthropic Initiative
Irving
and Betty Brudnick
Founders, Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict
William Bulger
Former President, University of Massachusetts
Dan Cheever
President of Simmons College
Chuck Collins
Associate Director, United for a Fair Economy
John Cullinane
Founding President, Boston Public Library Foundation
Westy Egmont
Executive Director, The International Institute of Boston
David Ford
Executive Director, Richard and Susan Smith Foundation
Barney Frank
United States Congressman, Massachusetts
Robert Frehse
President, The Hearst Foundations
Chris Gabrieli
Chairman, Massachusetts 2020
Cary Grace
Managing Director of Bank of America's Philanthropic Management
Paul Grogan
President/CEO, The Boston Foundation
Ray Hammond
Chair, The Boston Foundation
Scott Harshbarger
Attorney General of Massachusetts (1991-1999)
Dyanne Hayes
Vice President for Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Eileen Howard Dunn
Vice President, CVS/Caremark Charitable Trust
George Irish
Vice President and East Coast Director of the Hearst Foundations
and recently retired President of Hearst Newspapers
John Isaacson
Founder and Director, Isaacson Miller
David Ives
Retired Chairman, WGBH
Joanna Jacobson
Managing Director
Strategic Grant Partners
Marion Kane
Executive Director, The Barr Foundation
Peter Karoff
Founder and Chairman, The Philanthropic Initiative
Edmund F. Kelly
President and CEO, Liberty Mutual Group
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Chair, The Heinz Endowments
Mark Kramer
Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisor
Paul A. La Camera
General Manager of WBUR
Aaron Lazare
Chancellor and Dean, UMass Medical Center
Reverend Sam Lloyd
Rector, Trinity Church
Melinda Marble
Executive Director, Fireman Charitable Foundation
Margaret McKenna
President
Wal-Mart Foundation
George McCully
Trustee, Ellis L. Phillips Foundation
Dr. Joseph Moore
President of Lesley University
Peter Morrissey
Morrissey and Company
Cecily Morse
Executive Director, A.C. Ratshesky Foundation
Peter Nessen
Chair, NCN Financial Corporation
Susan Paresky
Sr. VP Development
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Malcolm Rogers
Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Brian Rutledge
President, Commonwealth Zoological Corporation
Paul Schervish
Professor of Sociology at Boston College
Andrea Silbert
President, Eos Foundation
Pam Solo
President, The Institute for Civil Society
Alan Solomont
CEO, Solomont Bailis Ventures
Josiah Spaulding
President, The Wang Center
Helen Spaulding
Past Chair, The Boston Foundation
Laurence Stybel
President, Stybel, Peabody & Associates
Derry Tanner
Executive Director, Sudbury Foundation
William O. Taylor
Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe
Pam Trefler
Founder and Director, The Trefler Foundation
Bradford Washburn
Retired President, Museum of Science, Boston
Blenda Wilson
President, Nellie Mae Foundation
Marie C. Wilson
President, The White House Project
Andrew Wolk
Founder, Root Cause
