City Year Greater Boston Investment Community Breakfast 2024

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About the Event

Each year, City Year Greater Boston’s annual Investment Community Breakfast brings together leaders in our community who are dedicated to maximizing resources to benefit and serve local students. Join us to network with others in the investment industry and learn how reducing teaching gaps today pays dividends to our local community for years to come.

We are honored to have Tracy Palandjian, CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, and Sandy Edgerley, Founder and President of Hexagon Properties, to join us for a fireside chat. See below for their full bios.

Event Details:
7:15am – 8:00am | Networking
8:00am – 9:00am | Program & Breakfast

Registration is required. Please RSVP by December 2nd. Our registration page will be live soon; check back for updates or email Aura Guir at aura.guir@cityyear.org to be added to the registration list.

Sponsorship Opportunities:

By partnering with City Year Greater Boston as a sponsor, your company earns the opportunity to showcase its dedication to educational equity and care for our students and schools. You can view our sponsorship menu here. Please email Mollie Puskar (mpuskar@cityyear.org) for further details.

We strive to provide an equitably joyful experience at all City Year Greater Boston events. Please contact Alanna Kouri at akouri@cityyear.org o discuss accessibility and accommodations needed to participate fully in this event.

About the Featured Speakers:

Tracy Palandjian

Tracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national nonprofit and registered investment advisor. In 2011, Tracy co-founded Social Finance with Sir Ronald Cohen and David Blood to seed the Pay For Success field in the United States, sparking a national conversation about new funding models to tackle systemic challenges and drive measurable impact. Since then, Social Finance has mobilized over $400 million in new investments designed to achieve improved outcomes across a range of issue areas, including economic mobility, health, and housing. In 2024, the organization launched the Social Finance Institute to advance the field through actionable research and educational outreach.

Prior to Social Finance, Tracy was a Managing Director for eleven years at The Parthenon Group, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice to support foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the U.S. and globally. Tracy also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Tracy is a frequent speaker and writer on impact investing, social innovation, and results-oriented policymaking. She is an author of Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility, and co-author of Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes. Tracy co-founded the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, where she serves as Vice Chair. She is a member of the board of the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts and a former Trustee of the Global Steering Group on Impact Investing.

Tracy is a member of the Harvard Corporation and serves on the boards of The Surdna Foundation, The Barr Foundation, and The Boston Foundation. She is an Independent Director of Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE: AMG). Previously, Tracy served as Board Chair of Facing History and Ourselves. She also served on the boards of RFK Human Rights, Milton Academy, and Mass General Brigham. She is a 2019 recipient of Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award.

A native of Hong Kong, Tracy is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Sandra M. Edgerley

Sandy is Founder and President of real estate development firm Hexagon Properties focused on luxury residential and hospitality projects. Her signature blend of design and luxury services create stunning residences and home-away-from-home experiences with a portfolio of properties in Aspen, Boston, and Palm Beach including Haddon Hall, Mountain Forge, and No. 284 Guest House. Her latest venture, The Quin House, melds community building and design to create a unique and collective experience in the form of a modern social club. Sandy was previously a Consultant and Manager, as well as Director of Recruiting and Training at Bain & Company.

She has been actively involved in the education and social service nonprofit arena, serving ten years as a director and four years as Chair of The Boston Foundation, and over 25 years as a Director and five years as Chair of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. Currently, Sandy is a director and trustee of several nonprofit organizations, including City Year, Big Brother Big Sister of Massachusetts, Boston College, the Senior Advisory Board of Horizons for Homeless Children, the Massachusetts General Hospital President’s Council. Sandy co-chairs the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Business School with her husband Paul.

Sandy previously served as a board member of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, Scholar Athletes and Youth Villages MA. She has also served as Co-chair of the Harvard University Capital Campaign, the Harvard Campaign for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Harvard College Fund. She also served on the Boards of Youth Villages and Be The Change, and as an overseer at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and WGBH. Sandy is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School where she graduated with Distinction. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband, Paul, and their four children.

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