The Boston Foundation welcomes technology entrepreneur C.A. Webb to Board of Directors

Boston – The Boston Foundation today announced it is welcoming entrepreneur C.A. Webb to the foundation’s Board of Directors for a five-year term that began July 1, 2017. Webb is the co-founder of Boston-based venture capital fund _Underscore.VC, and has also served as Executive Director of the New England Venture Capital Association. She left _Underscore.VC in February 2017 to pursue new ventures.

“Throughout her career, C.A. has leveraged technology and innovation as an engine for solving challenging problems, and we are very excited to welcome her entrepreneurial spirit to our Board of Directors,” said Paul S. Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation.

Webb has long shared her passion for innovative solutions to community challenges outside of her full-time work. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New England Venture Capital Association, the Alliance for Business Leadership, Resilient Coders and MassRobotics, and as an Advisor on the Boston Board of Room to Grow. She has also played an active role in the development of the Boston chapter of Pledge 1%, a Boston Foundation-supported effort to expand the philanthropic engagement of startups and other players in the innovation economy.

“C.A. Webb recognizes that the only way to solve Boston’s big problems is by building a more strongly connected community that taps the talent of all of Boston's people,” said Sandra M. Edgerley, the current Chair of the Boston Foundation Board of Directors. “She has made a career of starting and reinventing organizations, bringing an entrepreneurial approach to domains well beyond the world of technology. We look forward to collaborating with her on the Board of the Boston Foundation.”

Webb is a graduate of Wellesley College. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and children. Her renewable five-year term runs until June 30, 2022.

The Boston Foundation is also pleased to announce that two other members of the Board of Directors, Paul C. Gannon and Peter Nessen, were elected to a second term on the Board and will serve until June 30, 2022. 

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The Boston Foundation, Greater Boston’s community foundation, is one of the largest community foundations in the nation, with net assets of some $1 billion. In 2016, the Foundation and its donors made $100 million in grants to nonprofit organizations and received gifts of more than $107 million. In celebration of its Centennial in 2015, the Boston Foundation launched the ongoing Campaign for Boston to strengthen the Permanent Fund for Boston, the principal endowment fund focused on the most pressing needs of Greater Boston. The Foundation is proud to be a partner in philanthropy, with more than 1,000 separate charitable funds established by donors either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes. The Boston Foundation also serves as a major civic leader, think tank and advocacy organization, commissioning research into the most critical issues of our time and helping to shape public policy designed to advance opportunity for everyone in Greater Boston. The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI), a distinct operating unit of the Foundation, designs and implements customized philanthropic strategies for families, foundations and corporations around the globe. For more information about the Boston Foundation and TPI, visit tbf.org or call 617-338-1700.