Join an influential gathering of business leaders, philanthropists, educators, civic officials, and community stakeholders for an inspiring conversation on how philanthropy is transforming public education and creating greater opportunities for every student.

Moderator

Jeff Glor

Jeff Glor is an author and Emmy Award-winning journalist who spent nearly twenty years at CBS News, where he anchored the CBS Evening News and CBS Saturday Morning. He has reported from all fifty states and from around the world, with coverage ranging from war zones to presidential interviews. His debut book, The Stories That Saved Me, arrives next year, and he is at work on his first novel. Jeff lives in Old Greenwich with his family and is a proud Greenwich Public School Parent.

Panelists

Jon Ledecky

Jon Ledecky is a Greenwich Public Schools product and a proud member of the Greenwich High School Class of 1975. As a GHS student he covered Cardinal sports for WGCH Radio and the Greenwich Time and won the Grantland Rice Scholarship as the nation’s top teenage sports reporter. In 2023 he returned to GHS as commencement speaker, telling graduates he had made lifelong friends and memories at the school. Jon is co-owner of the New York Islanders of the NHL and the Hamilton Hammers of the AHL. He founded U.S. Office Products in 1994, which by 1997 had become the fastest entrant in the history of the Fortune 500, and he has served on more than twenty public company boards. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, and has long supported education initiatives for students in Boston, New York, and Washington.

Nicole Mitchell

Nicole Mitchell’s belief in the power of education has shaped both her career and her philanthropy. She began in finance as Assistant Treasurer of the Bank of New York before joining the faculty at Greenwich Country Day School, where she taught for thirteen years. Since 2019 she has served as Executive Director of SPIDACARES, the foundation established by the family of NBA All Star Donovan Mitchell, which has provided computers to students in Bridgeport, built basketball courts for Children’s Village, and supported financial aid at GCDS through the largest scholarship gift in the school’s history. She also launched Welcome Home by SPIDACARES, a partnership with Inspirica in Stamford addressing homelessness. Nicole serves on the GCDS Board of Trustees, is Corporate Sponsor Chair for The Links, and received YWCA Greenwich’s Women Who Inspire Award in 2022. She holds a BS from Concordia College and is completing a master’s in Early Childhood Education at Manhattanville College. She is the proud parent of two GCDS graduates, Jordan Elise and Donovan.

Lucy Ball

Lucy Ball became the Founding Executive Director of Lone Pine Foundation in 2002 and has led in the nonprofit sector for nearly forty years. She previously served as Executive Director of Starlight Children’s Foundation, now Encourage Kids Foundation, where she remains on the Board of Advisors. Lucy is a founding board member of Impact Fairfield County, a women’s giving circle that leverages individual gifts for greater collective impact, and she chairs the board of the Community Mindfulness Project. In 2013 the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy awarded her its Martha Newman Award for integrity and dedication to philanthropy, and in 2018 she received the YWCA Greenwich Brava Award recognizing her leadership, mentorship, and commitment to community.

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