We are legally incorporated in the United States as a not-for-profit corporation, with full recognition by the U.S. Government as a charitable, tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)3 of the code of the Internal Revenue Service. Operationally, members of our core team and expanded network of stewards are based in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, giving Innovations for Scaling Impact a global reach and local operating capacity on each continent from the United States, Panama, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Kenya and South Africa.

Board of Directors

• Shawn Bohen, National Director of Strategy, Year Up
• Thomas Burke, Director of Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Griet Dehandschutter, Principal, Dehandschutter and Associates
• Constance Kane, Vice President and COO, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
• Namrita Kapur, Director of Strategy for Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund
• Sanjeev Khagram, Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs, University of Washington
• Ralph Taylor, Founder, Metanoia Fund

Shawn Bohen - National Director of Strategy, Year Up

Shawn is the first National Director for Strategic Growth and Impact at the social enterprise Year Up, a one-year, intensive workforce development program that provides urban young adults with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate internship. Over the last 25 years, Shawn has made a career as a collaborative strategist, creating, growing, and strategically managing mission-driven organizations. Shawn is recognized for her ability to turn great ideas into dynamic, diversely-staffed, fiscally-viable entities. She has had responsibility for administration, governance, fundraising, communications, constituency engagement, curriculum planning, and research, as well as for managing partnerships with community-based organizations and individuals, donors and collaborators.

Prior to Year Up, Shawn spent more than a decade working at Harvard University in a series of leadership roles facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle some of society’s most challenging and interesting social, political and economic dilemmas. Partnering with academic colleagues, Shawn led the strategic evolution of four university-wide start-ups, including the Harvard Initiative for Global Health, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the John F. Kennedy School, the university-wide Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, and the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions. In her last post at Harvard, Shawn served as Assistant Provost, co-creating and co-leading the first institution-wide Office for Faculty Development and Diversity committed to transforming Harvard's approach to finding, developing and promoting a diverse, world-class faculty.

Shawn holds an M.B.A. from Babson Graduate School of Management and a B.A. in Theatre Arts and English from the University of Minnesota. Shawn has two elementary school-aged children who are in the Brookline, MA, public schools. She currently serves as a senior advisor to Partners in Health and the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Thomas Burke - Director of Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Massachusetts General Hospital

Thomas directs the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Human Rights. He is also the associate clinical director of the emergency department at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a practicing emergency physician on the faculty at Children's Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School.

Thomas has spent half of his career in community practice and half in academia. His many extraordinary experiences include 7 years in the U.S. Army with several overseas deployments and serving as the doctor for the FBI Hostage Rescue Team at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. He served as director of the emergency department in the U.S. Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center during the Bosnian crisis and helped care for 28,000 refugees in Guantanamo Bay in 1995. Currently he is the medical director for two companies that provide expeditions via private jets for international travel. He has served as a visiting professor and lecturer in many countries. His unique collection of published essays is available online at NotesFromtheER.com.

Griet Dehandschutter - Principal, Dehandschutter and Associates

Greit is founder and principal of Dehandschutter and Associates, a US consulting firm that specializes in helping non-US organizations start or expand their fundraising from American sources - foundations, corporations, and individuals. She has 15 years of experience in transatlantic fundraising, communications and business development, both in the non-profit and the corporate sectors.

Born in Belgium and now living in the US as a permanent resident, Griet started her career as the Co-Founder and First Managing Director of the European American Business Council, for which she raised the start-up capital and annual funds.

In Brussels, Griet worked as a Communications Consultant for Burson-Marsteller (B-M). She developed and implemented Belgian and pan-European communication campaigns for government and corporate clients. She won the B-M Award for Outstanding Performance for her work with a Belgian beverage coalition. Prior to that, she advised Gijs De Vries, a Dutch Member of the European Parliament, on the transatlantic regulatory climate for corporate investment and trade.

In the US, Griet established the US East Coast office for the Flanders Foreign Investment Office. As the US representative of the Flemish government she advised US senior management of companies such as Staples, RWD, IDT and Sarnoff on how to locate or expand their European operations in Flanders, Belgium. Prior to starting her own practice, she served as the Director of Development & Communications for SPIN USA, Inc., a national social services organization based in Massachusetts.

Griet has a graduate degree in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., and Bologna, Italy, and a law degree from the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium.

Constance Kane - Vice President and COO, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Constance is the Vice President and COO for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. She has worked in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Constance held previous positions as a Senior Consultant for the Africa Division of World Education International, the Global Program Director for Oxfam America and the Asia Regional Director for Pact Inc. She is also founding member and Vice Chairperson of the Global Reporting Initiative.

Namrita Kapur - Director of Strategy for Corporate Parternships, Environmental Defense Fund

Namrita leads the strategy for the Corporate Partnership Program of the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to her current role, she was member of the Root Capital team for six years. Namrita has played an integral role in establishing the strategy and developing the infrastructure of the organization. As vice president of strategic partnerships, she manages relationships with key partners, oversees the development and dissemination of intellectual capital, and plays a significant role in the development and implementation of major strategic initiatives. Prior to her six-year career at Root Capital, she was an equity research analyst at the investment bank, Adams, Harkness & Hill (now CanAccord Adams), where she built the Resource Optimization Technology franchise. She has previously directed programs for the Environmental League of Massachusetts and Berkshire Natural Resources Council, and worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program. She currently serves on the Board of the Environmental League of Massachusetts. Ms. Kapur holds an M.B.A. from Yale University, an M.E.M. from Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a B.A. in molecular biology from Princeton University. Along with English, she speaks Hindi, Portuguese and Spanish.

Sanjeev Khagram - Professor of Public Policy and International Affairs, University of Washington

Sanjeev is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral leadership, research, teaching and engagement in the areas of globalization and transnationalism, sustainable development, human security, good governance, public policy, partnerships, social networks, corporate social responsibility, civil society, strategic management, impact assessment. He is currently a Wyss Scholar at the Harvard Business School and Ratan Tata Chair at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He was previously Dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre and led the global impact evaluation and learning program at the World Commission On Dams. He has published widely including: Restructuring World Politics, with University of Minnesota Press; Dams and Development, with Cornell University Press; The Transnational Studies Reader with Routledge Press; "Inequality and Corruption" in the American Journal of Sociology; "Future Architectures of Global Governance: A Transnational Perspective/ Prospective" in the journal Global Governance, "Environment and Security" in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, and "Social Balance Sheets" in Harvard Business Review - Latin America. Khagram has worked extensively with global action networks, multilateral agencies, governments, corporations, civil society organizations, professional associations and universities all over the world, with extended periods in Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom. He holds a B.A. in development studies/engineering, an M.A. in economics (from the Food Research Institute), and a Ph.D. in political science, all from Stanford University.

Ralph Taylor - Founder, Metanoia Fund

Ralph is the founder of the Metanoia Fund, a philanthropy focused on spurring innovation and impact in social purpose initiatives addressing complex challenges ranging from peace building and national security to pediatric AIDs and climate change. Ralph's career has encompassed organic farming, horticultural therapy, community supported agriculture, community development finance, energy and environmental services, and angel investing. Over the past fourteen years, he has served on the boards of the Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), Investor's Circle, and the World Resources Institute. As an adviser to the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation he was responsible for initiating seed and follow on grants for collaborations between impact investors, businesses and activist organizations that resulted in the Global Reporting Initiative and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. He is the fourth generation of a family whose philanthropies have had an impact on the public policy discourse in the United States since the late l970's. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Divinity School and lives near Boston with his wife, Florence Brown, a physician at the Joslin Diabetes Center. They have two grown sons.