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Board Members
 Jim Rappaport
Jim Rappaport is an attorney, real estate developer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and fundraiser and political activist.
In 1993, he joined his father and brother Jerry Jr. and founded the New Boston Fund, which owns, develops, and operates over 15 million square feet of office, research and development, warehouse, and residential real estate. He currently serves as Chairman of Specialty Hospitals of America, LLC, a provider of long-term acute care at two hospitals in Washington DC. He has also been active in state and national politics, serving as Massachusetts Republican State Chairman from 1992 to 1997 and as a member of the Republican National Committee. He ran for US Senate in 1990 and lieutenant governor in 2002.
Jim and his wife, Cecelia, have funded three fellowships at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Pediatric Oncology and Melanoma and at Children’s Hospital in Pediatric Surgery. They have also been involved in numerous other community organizations at the board and fund-raising levels. In addition, Rappaport’s commitment to the goals of the Foundation can be felt in his recent work with the Rappaport Honors Program at Suffolk University Law School and the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University.
 Jill (Rapaport) Glist
Jill Glist is the president of Lambent Services, a company based in New York City that provides part-time personal assistants to clients.
Her educational background is in Clinical Psychology (MA, NYU), where she focused on structural family therapy and psychodynamic individual therapy. Jill received her undergraduate degree from Yale, where she majored in Literature with a concentration on English Romantic poetry. Her thesis was awarded the best of its year in that department.
On the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation, Jill has demonstrated a particular interest in the arts initiative, and has promoted the recognition of emerging leaders in this field by leveraging funding where it is most needed.
Jill’s background in group process has also led her to encourage the board to consider opportunities for best practices as a foundation and as a family which works together. To this end, she has attended to how the members of the board function individually and as a whole, and has been working with the board to operationalize deliberate methods of interaction.
Jill lives in Westchester County, NY, with her husband, Adam, and her two sons, Saul (6), and Lukas (3).
Past Rappaport Family Board Members include: Elizabeth Rappaport, Nancy Rappaport, Martha Rappaport Meyers and Jerry Rappaport Jr.
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