Jason Franklin
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration

Jason has a background in philanthropy education, nonprofit strategy and leadership, and urban policy and education advocacy. He serves as Executive Director of Bolder Giving, a nonprofit organization seeking to inspire people to give at their full lifetime giving potential. He is also a Lecturer on Public Administration and Doctoral Candidate at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. His research focuses on the role of charitable foundations in the policy making process. Jason teaches courses on philanthropy, nonprofit management, and public policy including Philanthropy, Advocacy & Social Change; Strategic Management for Public Service Organizations; and Theory and Practice of Grantmaking. He was the Distinguished Doctoral Teacher of the Year in both 2009 and 2010.

He is an experienced national donor educator and leader with over a decade of volunteer, professional and scholarly experience in philanthropic and social change work. He serves on the boards of Resource Generation, Proteus Fund, North Star Fund, and Social Justice Philanthropy Collaborative and on the advisory board of Wealth for the Common Good. Prior to his work with Bolder Giving, he worked at the 21st Century School Fund where he most recently served as Deputy Director. Previously, he coordinated the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Network housed at the NYU Research Center for Leadership in Action and has also worked for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, White House Office of National AIDS Policy, and Oregon Commission on Children and Families.

A serial social entrepreneur, he co-founded Oregon Students Supporting Education (a statewide student organizing effort that helped prevent major budget cuts to Oregon public schools), the Multnomah Youth Commission (a youth-led agency that advises city and county leaders on program and policy decisions), and IAM LLC (an urban brownfield development planning firm that won the 2004 Goldman Sachs Global Social Venture Competition). He has an MS in Urban Policy and Nonprofit Management from the New School's Milano Graduate School and a BA in Political Communication from the George Washington University.

 











Contact Details

jason.franklin@nyu.edu
(646) 678-4394
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Fl - NY, NY 10012
Office Hours: By appointment only.
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Areas of Expertise

  • Education
  • Health Policy
  • Leadership
  • Politics
  • Public & Nonprofit Orgs.
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Social Policy
  • Urban Planning
  • Urban Policy