Jason Franklin

Who is Jason Franklin?

Jason Franklin is a philanthropist, activist and researcher involved in urban policy reform and private philanthropy. He serves as the Executive Director of Bolder Giving in New York City.

While attending Lincoln High School, he founded Oregon Students Supporting Education, an advocacy organization mobilizing public school students against proposed budget cuts after the passage of Oregon Ballot Measure 47 in 1995. He also founded the Multnomah County Youth Advisory Board, now called the Multnomah Youth Commission. He went to college at the George Washington University in Washington, DC where he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Communication. While in DC, he worked in the Office of National AIDS Policy in the Executive Office of President Bill Clinton’s second administration and then worked as part of the staff of the 21st Century School Fund.

After moving to New York where he completed a MS in Nonprofit Management at the Milano Graduate School at the New School, Jason co-founded IAM LLC, a small real estate development firm focused on urban brownfield remediation and redevelopment.