Adam Green
Executive Director, Rocking the Boat
- Role
- Executive Director at Rocking the Boat
- Location
- Bronx, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Adam Green
Adam Green is the founder and Executive Director of Rocking the Boat. He is a native and current resident of New York City and graduated in 1996 from Vassar College with a focus on folklore and storytelling in American Culture. Though his work developing Rocking the Boat, he has received an Echoing Green Fellowship. a Union Square Award for grassroots organizing, was a NY 1 News New Yorker of the Week in 2003, was profiled on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy in 2007, won a Manhattan Institute Social Entrepreneurship Award in 2009, and was a 2014 CNN Hero. Specialties: Non-Profit Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Experiential Education, Traditional Wooden Boatbuilding
Experience
Executive Director
Jun 2001 — Present · Bronx, NY, US
Founder of youth development organization that serves young people annually through the mediums of wooden boatbuilding and on-water education. Role includes all aspects of managing a $2.3 million annual budget, supervising 20 full-time program and administrative staff people, and supporting a 12-member Board of Directors.
Education
Columbia University Institute for Non-Profit Management
Non-Profit Management
2009 — 2009
Vassar College
Bachelor of Arts, American Culture
1991 — 1996
Skills
- Community Organizing
- Youth Development
- Experiential Education
- Grant Writing
- Board Development
- Environmental Education
- Program Development
- Boat Building
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Grants
- Sailing
- Nonprofits
- Fundraising
- Public Speaking
- Philanthropy
- Rowing
- Non-Profits
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