Compelling Clips
This CD has exclusive new tracks by Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger, Jon Bon Jovi, Mario Frangoulis, Buffalo Tom, Natalie Merchant, & more in collaboration with currently or formerly homeless musicians on benefit CD to fight homelessness.
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Staff/Core Volunteers
Executive Director
John McGah, MSPA, is the founder and Executive Director of Give Us Your Poor. A former Senior Research Associate at UMass Boston’s Center for Social Policy, he is an acknowledged expert on issues of homelessness. John is a 2002 International Eisenhower Fellowship recipient which allowed him to study homelessness in Eastern and Western Europe. He speaks nationally on homelessness issues at conferences and community groups. John has worked closely with community leaders in Massachusetts and across the United States developing relationships with national homeless organizations; shelter directors and staff; homelessness advocates; nationally known scholars; city, state and federal policy makers, and homeless people. In 2009, he spent a year in Mexico with his family focusing intensely on issues of leadership, sustainability, and systems-thinking.
Assistant Director
Jeffrey Range, MSPA – International Relations, began with Give US Your Poor in the fall of 2007 and is currently working in the position of Assistant Director. Jeffrey’s interest and awareness in structural connections to social justice (and social injustice) derived from working, studying, and traveling abroad in countries throughout East Asia and Latin America, notably barrios in Caracas, Venezuela and with campesinos and massacre survivors in rural Guatemala. Jeffrey is particularly interested in Give US Your Poor’s usage of Systems Thinking to address homelessness and presented an original paper utilizing Systems Thinking Theory at a Dispute Resolution conference in October, 2008.
Chief Financial Officer (Volunteer)
Larry LaFranchi has 30 years of senior executive management experience in organizations ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. He has successfully led international technology and market leaders in both manufacturing and service industries during periods of rapid growth, meeting the challenges of building companies while achieving profitable results. Larry recently completed a successful assignment as President of Solar Electric Light Company ("SELCO"), a venture-capital-backed start-up that raised $7.0 million to develop the market for distributed power in countries lacking reliable grid electricity. Previously, Larry spent 20 years at Analog Devices (ADI), a leading global supplier of semiconductors, where he held senior executive positions including that of controller at the division, group and corporate levels. Prior to ADI, he functioned as a business unit controller for Texas Instruments. Larry holds a BS in Engineering from UCLA and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Operations Director (Volunteer)
Gabriel Miller brings nearly twenty years of business, legal and non-profit experience building successful organizations. Mr. Miller is the COO and General Counsel of STORS Digital Retail Network, a Show & Tell company. STORS is a media company providing digital signage management and content solutions to retailers across the country. Prior to joining STORS, Mr. Miller was at Captivate Network, a media company, as General Counsel, while also serving as the chief Human Resources, Facilities and Insurance/Risk Management. He spent almost a decade at Fleet Bank serving as General Counsel of Fleet Real Estate Capital, a servicer and originator of commercial loans with over $2 billion of assets under management. While at Fleet, Mr. Miller also served as Senior Vice President/Senior Counsel, responsible for all legal issues related to Fleet’s several thousand domestic and international facilities. Mr. Miller is an active volunteer and fundraiser for various non-profits.
Information Director (Volunteer) - OPEN
We are currently seeking a volunteer to help write and design our regular Give US Your Poor e-newsletter. In interested please call 617-287-4044 and ask for Jeffrey. Must be organized and a good writer.
