Executive Director, Foundation Relations Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT has appointed Janna Greene as the next executive director of foundation relations following a competitive national search. Greene joins the institute in September 2023 from her most recent role of managing director of corporate and foundation relations at Massachusetts General Hospital.At MIT, Greene will lead and manage a centralized team responsible for proactively seeking new funding opportunities and building partnerships with foundations and funding arms of philanthropic donors resulting in grants to support a wide range of institute-wide, initiative, school, department, and program needs in research and education. She will serve as a member of the vice president of resource development's senior management team and regularly work with senior leadership, administrators, and faculty to obtain foundation funding for MIT priorities and objectives. Over nearly five years at Mass General, Greene was responsible for significantly scaling and unifying the foundation relations and corporate strategies teams. She fostered team expansion by 30 percent and increased revenue by 70 percent, while actively managing a portfolio of national and international hospital and system-level institutional principal gift prospects. Greene also facilitated the first Mass General CEO roundtable and served as a collaborative thought partner across the development office, with clinical and research leaders, throughout the Mass General Brigham enterprise, and beyond.A longtime Bostonian, Greene has more than twenty years of corporate and foundation relations experience across such organizations as the New England Aquarium, the Institute for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Science, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she served in roles of increasing responsibility for nearly ten years. Greene received her bachelor of arts degree in political science from Gettysburg College.Jack Gorman led this search with Grace Zakim and Sandeep Kaur.