Joe Ganley

Joseph Ganley, Director of Strategic Partnershipsjoe@mass2020.org

Joe Ganley is Director of Strategic Partnerships for Massachusetts 2020.In this capacity he works with the Chairman and President to develop and maintain partnerships with key local, state and federal elected officials and government agencies.He is also responsible for external communications and media relations.In December of 2001, Joe helped coordinate Massachusetts 2020's groundbreaking study: No Time to Lose, Children and their After-School Hours, a survey of Massachusetts parents that revealed an estimated 220,000 children are on their own most days after-school.

From January to July of 2004, Joe served as a senior consultant to Boston 2004, Inc. the not-for profit host committee for the Democratic National Convention held in Boston in July 2004.In this capacity, Joe directed Celebrate Boston, a major advertising and marketing campaign leading up to the convention.The campaign included television, print, radio and web advertising as well as over 250 community events throughout the city, culminating with a free public concert by the Boston Pops on City Hall Plaza on the Sunday before the convention.

From February to November of 2002, Joe served as Deputy Campaign Manager for Chris Gabrieli's campaign for Lt.
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In 1998, Joe was Director of Volunteers for Keane's campaign for the U.S. Congress.

Joe has worked in various capacities with a number of Democratic political campaigns.He is the recipient of the Massachusetts Democratic Party's John F. Kennedy Scholars award, and has served on the Boards of the Massachusetts Coalition for a Democratic Future, the Young Democrats of Massachusetts and the Nashua Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America.Joe earned a B.S. in Political Science from Northeastern University.

A native of Gardner, Joe now lives in Charlestown, MA.

On the evening of Saturday, March 22, 1930 Deputy Joe Ganley, Marshall Gilbert Kraivig of Slayton, Hiram Bostic of Lake Wilson, and Sheriff George Nelson raided the R. J. Wall restaurant in Lake Wilson.

Although Massachusetts 2020 is highly active in the education field, Joe Ganley, Director of Strategic Partnerships, says his organization is really a "thoughtful convener," whose role is to attract funding partners and get them to back specific initiatives.
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While it may at first have been focused solely on after-school programs, Ganley says Massachusetts 2020 is "now working on broader issues.
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Ganley says one program that provides this opportunity is Citizen Schools. Created in 1995, Citizen Schools has built a creative learning model that addresses community needs while at the same time building skills through hands-on "experiential" learning.

This year Citizen Schools grew from a Boston flagship program that enrolled 1,200 children annually at 12 campuses, to four new campuses in four cites: San Jose, Houston and Worcester and Framingham Massachusetts.

"Citizen Schools expose middle school kids to the broad careers that are out there … And it keeps them engaged. Massachusetts 2020, notes Ganley, is assisting Citizen Schools in expanding its service to another half dozen communities throughout the state.

Some of the founders are bright young (relative) newcomers, like Andover Representative Barry Finegold (31), political operative Joe Ganley (25), Polaris Ventures partner Jonathan Seelig (30), or former national DLC staffer Emily Norton (34).
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"In the general election, we spent the entire campaign talking to our own base," exclaims Joe Ganley, who was deputy campaign manager for Democratic lieutenant governor nominee Chris Gabrieli.

Manager: Joe Ganley

A group of six children from Framingham's Citizen Schools summer program visited the Boston 2004 headquarters, which runs everything related to the convention that occurs outside the FleetCenter, said Joe Ganley, a consultant host with the group.
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Ganley, who led the tour, quizzed the group to see how much they know about the convention.
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Then the students peppered Ganley with their own questions.
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"He will be traveling out to other parts of the country and work his way back," Ganley said."He will go to the states with larger groups of people."

The Boston 2004 office has been running for nearly two years, Ganley said, since the city was chosen to host the convention.The group of about 20 full-time staff and 20 volunteers and interns occupy an office on the fifth floor of Copley Place, overlooking the Back Bay.

The group has a budget of $65 million, Ganley said, but much of that money has gone into the construction at the FleetCenter.

Next week, they will be dealing with everyone coming to Boston for the convention.

"It's like if your parents have someone coming over for dinner, our job is to prepare to take care of everyone coming," Ganley said.
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Little Richard will perform for the journalists, Ganley said.
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Consultant Joe Ganley gave Framingham students a tour of Boston 2004's offices at Copley Place. (Photo: Lisa Cassidy)