Advisors and Friends

In addition to the Partnership for New England, a broad-based Advisory Group for the New England Futures Project includes leaders from the fields of business, nonprofit, academia, public policy, philanthropy, and local, state, and regional government. Advisory Group members and project supporters, such as the Northern Forest Center, the Maine Development Foundation, Coastal Enterprises, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, provide insight into issues affecting the region, suggest interview contacts and opportunities for networking, and will provide instrumental support as the regional agenda is created after the articles are published.

The Advisors include:

• Kip Bergstrom
  Executive Director, Rhode Island Economic Policy Council
• Steve Blackmer
  Executive Director, Northern Forest Center
• Henry Bourgeois
  Executive Director, Maine Compact for Higher Education
• Hooper Brooks
  Program Director for Environment, Surdna Foundation
  Chair, Management Board, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Liveable Communities
• Brian T. Byrnes
  President and CEO, The Vermont Community Foundation
• Armando Carbonell
  Senior Fellow and Cochairman, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• Alan Caron
  President, GrowSmart Maine
• Ernest Cook
  Director, Public Finance Program, Trust for Public Land
• Evan Dobelle
  President and CEO, New England Board of Higher Education
• Douglas Fisher
  Director, Economic and Business Development, Northeast Utilities
• Charles H.W. Foster
  Kennedy School of Government
  Former Secretary of the Environment, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Jack Hoy
  Former President, New England Board of Higher Education
• Hubie Jones
  Boston Civic Leader
• Meredith Jones
  Vice President, Program Development and Grantmaking Service
  Maine Community Foundation
• Charlotte Kahn
  Director, The Boston Indicators Project
  The Boston Foundation
• Richard Maine
  Managing Partner, Landmark Partners
• Peter Meade
  Executive Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
• David Parish
  Member Services Representative
  Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston
• Rick Schwartz
  Vice President of Communications
  The Rhode Island Foundation
• William Shutkin
  President, Orton Family Foundation
• David Soule
  New England Initiative, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Peter Stein
  General Partner
  Lyme Timber Consulting Services
• Ann F. Wallace
  Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Liveable Communities
• Patricia Wallace
  Director of Programs, Office of Urban Affairs, Archdiocese of Hartford Connecticut
• Lyle Wray
  Executive Director
  Capitol Region Council of Governments for the
  City of Hartford
• Larry Zabar
  Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, New England Council