Barr Foundation

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Leadership & Staff

Amos Hostetter Jr Cable TV billionaire, Boston philanthropist; Pilot House Associates
• Co-Founder and Trustee
Leah Hamilton Program Director, Urban Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Director of Education ('15→'23)
M Lee Pelton
• Trustee
Patrick Tutwiler Secretary of Education for Governor Maura Healey
• Senior Program Officer (Aug '22→Feb '23)

Board Members

Susan Tierney Managing Principal, Analysis Group
• Trustee
Jim Canales President and Trustee of Barr Foundation; Former President and Chief Executive Officer of The James Irvine Foundation
• President and Trustee ('14→?)
Mark Edwards CEO and Co-founder, Upstream USA; former Executive director of Opportunity Nation. Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur
• Board Member
Tracy P Palandjian CEO and Founder of Social Finance
• Trustee
Vanessa Calderon-Rosado CEO at Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion; Barr Foundation Trustee
• Trustee (Sep '19→?)
Barbara Hostetter President, Barr Foundation; wife of cable billionaire Amos Hostetter
• Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees. President until 2014

Donations

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Black Economic Council of Massachusetts
• Special initiatives: To provide genera operating support · 700,000 USD ('22)
North American Council For Online Learning
• General Operating Support · 500,000 USD ('22)
Massachusetts Parents United
• General Operating Support · 420,000 USD ('20)
Massachusetts School Administrators Association Inc
• implementation of Mass. Assoc. Of School Superintendents' redi strategy and NSIP · 400,000 USD ('22)
Boston Globe Media Partnres LLC
• Education: To continue to support "The Great Divide" · 400,000 USD ('22)
Massachusetts Charter Public School Association Inc
• general operating support · 330,000 USD ('22)
Latinos For Education Inc
• Provide Core Support for New England Operations · 300,000 USD ('22)
Holyoke Public Schools Public school district in MA, under receivership as of August 2024
• Donation/Grant · 270,000 USD ('22)
Teach for America Leadership training & short term K12 teaching program oriented around districts with poverty
• Core Support for TFA's MA Region · 250,000 USD ('22)
Bellwether Education Partners Inc
• To support case studies and capacity of parent power organizations in Education · 200,000 USD ('22)

Memberships

Environmental Grantmakers Association
• Member
The Funders Network Smart Growth
• Member
Grantmakers For Effective Organizations
• Member
Media Impact Funders Social Impact Investment in Media
• Member
Fund for Shared Insight Collaborative of Foundations That Use Feedback for Evaluation
• Core Funder

Miscellaneous Relationships

Boston Opportunity Agenda MA Strive Chapter
• Affiliation
Bellwether Education Partners
• Affiliation
Springpoint Schools School Redesign Consultant / Program
• Grantee
Barr Foundation
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Basic Info

Types Organization, Philanthropy
Website http://www.barrfoundation.org/

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