Joan Wallace-Benjamin

Board Memberships: Home for Little Wanderers, Children’s League of Massachusetts Recent Activity: Raised $8.2 million in 2011 With her organization needing to escape its decaying Jamaica Plain headquarters, Wallace-Benjamin made the bold decision in 2011 to sell the J.P. land to a developer and invest in a new space in Walpole. Last November, she and Little Wanderers celebrated the opening of the $18 million project, which has doubled the number of children with behavioral and developmental problems that can be served, all amid a bucolic 166 acres.