Jason Franklin

Jason is the Executive Director of Bolder Giving and a Lecturer on Public Administration at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service. Jason is also an active board member of Resource Generation, an organization that organizes young people with wealth to utilize their financial resources to deepen their social and civic engagement. He got involved with philanthropy in his early twenties when he took on a leadership role in his family's foundation. He comes to the Bolder Giving team from the 21st Century School Fund where he most recently worked as Deputy Director. Previously, he coordinated the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Network housed at the NYU Research Center for Leadership in Action and has also worked for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and Oregon Commission on Children and Families. A serial social entrepreneur, he co-founded Oregon Students Supporting Education (a statewide student organizing effort that helped prevent major budget cuts to Oregon public schools), the Multnomah Youth Commission (a youth-led agency that advises city and county leaders on program and policy decisions), and IAM LLC (an urban brownfield development planning firm that won the 2004 Goldman Sachs Global Social Venture Competition). He has an MS in Urban Policy and Nonprofit Management from the New School's Milano Graduate School and a BA in Political Communication from the George Washington University.