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Jerry Tuckman is in his third career, as a fund-raiser for educational and other non-profits. This follows careers as community organizer and governmental administrator, commercial real estate manager and asset manager. During Mr. Tuckman's original career, which included organizing public housing tenants, running public housing programs, operating a major portion of the Massachusetts State Economic Opportunity Office and serving as Director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in Boston, he had a number of major accomplishments. At the Boston Housing Authority  (1970-1972), he brokered a new tenant-oriented city-wide lease between the Boston Public Housing Tenants (Policy Council) Group and the BHA and organized tenants across the city. After obtaining his Masters of Social Work degree at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work in 1974, he managed the first public housing project in the nation to be torn down and replaced by mixed-income housing (with the public housing tenants as co-general partners). This was America Park and become King's Lynne. Following that he served as Assistant Director of the Bureau of Housing Management (covering 20,000+ units of public housing in the Commonwealth) and then Director of the Office of Resource Development (ORD) in the State Economic Opportunity Office at the (then) Massachusetts Department of Community Affairs (and Secretariat of Communities and Development). While at ORD, he created and expanded programs designed to engage and empower low-income residents in energy, food and economic development. The food program created food co-ops and community gardens. The energy programs expanded weatherization and began the first low-income fuel assistance programs. Solar greenhouses were joint activities of both the food and energy programs. His real emphasis was on building community economic development programs. He hired a staff and organized the first state-wide association of community development corporations (CDSs), initially called the Massachusetts Community-Based Development Association (McBadAss), the forerunner to the continuing Massachusetts Association of CDCs. He created the state-funded Community Enterprise Economic Development (CEED) Program  and served as a state appointee on the (then) newly created Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation. Jerry testified during the trial of (then) Representative James Craven before the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, the first elected official to come before the Commission. Craven was found guilty and was fined. Jerry then became Director of Housing for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the regional planning agency for Boston and the 100 communities surrounding it. There he partnered with the Archdiocese of Boston Housing office to create the Co-operative Planning Task Force which had a focus on limited-equity co-ops as a means of promoting home ownership for low-income people. This later become the Association for Resident-Controlled Housing. As Director, Jerry also created and ran the Area-wide Housing Opportunity Program which built low-income housing in suburban communities while expanding low income housing in inner-city areas, thereby promoting housing choice.

Mr. Tuckman left the public sector to begin a private real estate career which commenced at Northland Investment, continued at Paine Webber Properties and First Winthrop and concluded with a 13-year period at Equitable Real Estate (and subsidiaries). During his tenure, he was a Vice President of Equitable Real Estate responsible for General Account Properties throughout New York and New England (with well over $ 1 billion in assets under management). When Equitable was bought by Australian firm Lend Lease (now Lend Lease Bovis), Jerry joined its worldwide foundation http://www.lendlease.com/en/Group/Lend-Lease/Worldwide/Careers/wellbeing/Foundation%20programs.aspx, met with 125 other representatives from around the world in Australia, and participation in running the North American regional foundation programs.

Jerry's third career commenced when he become Director of Development (fund raising) at Tufts University (Tufts Hillel) and continued through Senior Major Gifts Officer position at the UMass Memorial Foundation (UMass Medical School) and UMass Boston, later becoming Director of Development at Tenacity http://www.tenacity.org/ and, currently, Director of Individual Giving at the National Consumer Law Center http://www.nclc.org/about-us/about-us.html.

Jerry is married to Jan and has two children, Emily and Leah, both married. Jan and Jerry have traveled to India, Zambia, Ecuador (including Galapagos), France, Italy, Guadelope, Belize, Costa Rica, Mexico, Hawaii and throughout the continental US.