Kerry Donahue, Ed.L.D., M.P.P. Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Greater Boston Area

Provide consulting services to a variety of education organizations (nonprofits, government, schools, and districts) on organizational strategy, fundraising, policy opportunities, and external affairs. I provide in-depth analysis of education ecosystems and help senior leaders understand how to position their organizations to take advantage of opportunities in their ecosystem, in order to maximize impact. My work supports organizations looking to scale, increase impact, or test new strategies. Results associated with my work include:• Quality Early Education and Care Quality Expansion• State-level regulatory and policy changes to streamline teacher licensure and certification• Large urban district policy change to increase equity in selective high school admissions and allocate resources for the preparation for underrepresented students• Early-stage tech career pathways organization• Development of a non-profit strategy for capturing federal ESSA funds

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Developed, fundraised and implemented BSF's 2nd 5-year strategic plan, which invested over $15 M in expanding access to quality seats in Boston through instructional improvement and high-quality school expansion• Created BSF's first civic influence strategy leveraging coalition-building, government affairs and communications, which increased organizational visibility and influenced key policies on school facilities, enrollment, and pandemic recovery• Co-founder of a citywide education coalition around mayoral election and superintendent transition that resulted in education being a top 3 issue in the Boston Mayoral race• Served on the BSF senior management team and responsible for overseeing organizational strategy, key foundation relationships and program management• Published opinion writer and featured education expert in the Boston Globe and Commonwealth Magazine

Boston, Ma

Working toward a high-quality school for every student in Boston.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Led the SCPCSD's policy team to establish high-quality charter school legislation in the SC Governor's 2017 budget and in the SC Senate• Increased the SCPCSD's strategic relationships, donors, public profile and legislative influence through a comprehensive public engagement strategy targeted at civic leaders, elected officials, and institutions• Developed the strategy for and conducted meetings with high-level officials across SC state government, and testified on behalf of the SCPCSD at legislative hearings• Advised the superintendent and senior leadership team on strategy, policy and external affairs• Facilitated the senior leadership team’s development of a new strategic plan and short and long-term goals

Harvard Graduate School Of Education, Harvard Business School

• Facilitated intensive professional learning and teaming experiences focused on organizational strategy for senior leadership teams of education organizations in the Scaling for Impact & Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) institutes

Boston, Ma

• Designed, managed, and executed a school leadership institute for 9 Springfield Empowerment Zone school teams focused on best practices in school improvement• Creation of a collaborative engagement plan for 3 external partners supporting school improvement efforts in the Springfield Zone schools

Washington, Dc

• Led due diligence for charter school growth investments culminating in release of over $4 million in funding and the creation of 3,400 high-quality, Tier 1 seats to the DC charter sector• Provided organizational strategy, performance management, governance, and scaling capacity to DC Schools Fund grantees• Launched and managed a 2-year school improvement pilot with 6 charter schools which moved 50% of schools from the bottom tier of the DC charter school performance management framework to the top tier• Managed $4 million in school improvement funding and designed a professional learning community for improvement pilot schools

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Founding manager for accelerated teacher selection process designed to attract top national teaching talent to DCPS• Designed a system for evaluating capacity and performance of nonprofit college access providers working within DCPS

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed a program for serving DC emerging charter school leaders to develop their leadership capacity, and gain job-embedded school leadership training. This program served as the initial prototype for New Leaders' national Emerging Leaders program/

Manchester, New Hampshire

• Managed social media accounts (twitter and facebook) and increased followers by 100%• Supported communications director with voter outreach and engagement• Advised campaign on public education policy issues

Chicago, Il

• Trained over 100 new teachers, directly coached and supervised 12 new teachers a the Teach For America summer institute.

Louisburg, North Carolina

• Developed and implemented a rigorous curriculum resulting in a two-year average of 86% of all students passing civics and economics state end-of-course (EOC) test-a 60% increase from previous year's test scores• Civics classes had the highest EOC pass rates of non-honors students in the county

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supported with constituent services, provided policy research for legislation responding to Hurricane Katrina, and state pension system liabilities.

Doctor Of Education Leadership, Educational Leadership And Administration, General

Mpp, Education And Social Policy

Concentration in education and social policy. Conducted a statistical analysis for masters thesis on the connection between remedial high.

B.A., Political Science

Activities and Societies: Washington Semester Program, Purple Key Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Senior Interviewer, Appalachia Service.