Naila Bolus is the Deputy Vice President and Director of the Campaign for a Greater Boston at the Boston Foundation. In this new role, Naila will lead an upcoming campaign to strengthen TBF’s endowment, work to expand annual fundraising, and strengthen connections with the region’s robust donor community. Prior to TBF, she served for 12 years as Chief Executive Officer of Jumpstart, a national early education organization that envisions the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed. During Naila’s tenure, Jumpstart significantly expanded its scale and impact, increasing the number of children served annually, revising its curriculum to improve academic and social-emotional outcomes for children, and developing new programming and policies to increase the number of high-quality early educators and promote equitable early education opportunities. Naila focused on diversifying Jumpstart’s funding base and increasing brand visibility while strengthening Jumpstart’s national reputation as a thought leader in the early childhood field. Previous to Jumpstart, Naila was Executive Director of Ploughshares Fund, the largest grant-making foundation in the United States dedicated exclusively to security and peace funding. At Ploughshares Fund, she transformed the organization from a small funder to a national, influential policy player, and helped lead an effort to win Senate ratification of the New START treaty in December 2010. She pioneered a model of “impact philanthropy” that leveraged the foundation’s convening power, grant-making and operational capacity. Prior to Ploughshares Fund, she served as Co-Director of 20/20 Vision, a national grassroots lobby. She helped found and served as Political Director of the Women Legislators’ Lobby, a national network of women state legislators. Naila graduated from Tufts University with a degree in International Relations. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her husband and three daughters.