OUR BOARD

Our volunteer board provides vital leadership, guides our mission to create opportunities and improve lives across Central Massachusetts.

Board members serve as stewards of the funds raised in our community, ensuring they are invested wisely in programs aligned with our impact areas: Youth Opportunity, Healthy Community, Financial Security, and Community Resilience. They help shape policies, approve budgets and audits, and make key funding decisions for our community partners. Beyond governance, they bring their passion, expertise and connections to drive real change.

Our board is a dynamic group of leaders dedicated to building a stronger, more equitable future for our community.

  • Che Anderson

    UMass Chan Medical School

  • Doug Belanger

    United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445

  • Joe Carlson

    Central Mass Labor Council

  • Dr. Matilde Castiel

    City of Worcester

  • Sheilah H. Dooley

    Clerk
    Pernet Family Health Service, Inc.

  • Tim Garvin

    Ex Officio
    United Way of Central Massachusetts

  • Elizabeth Helenius

    Community Impact Committee Chair
    Mass General Brigham Health Plan

  • Muthukumaran Jeevanantham

    Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc.

  • Aarti Madan

    Chair, Women’s Initiative
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Dan Mastrototaro

    Chair
    The Hanover Insurance Group

  • Victoria McCandless

    UMass Memorial Health

  • Kay McNamara

    Student Representative
    College of the Holy Cross

  • Rachel Monárrez

    Worcester Public Schools

  • Gina Plata-Nino

    Food Research & Action Center

  • Alex Richardson

    The BASE

  • Geoffrey Spofford

    Lian Zarrow

  • Rev. Clyde Talley

    Treasurer
    Belmont A.M.E. Zion Church

  • John C. Tanacea

    Bank of America

  • Christopher Watson

    Webster Five

  • Dr. Greg Weiner

    Assumption University

  • Edward H. White

    Consigli Construction Co.