Alex Alvanos

Associate Director

alexalvanos@bostonfoodforest.org

Alex leads Boston Food Forest Coalition's strategy, operations, and site management, including coordinating with BFFC's sites and stewards across Boston.

Before coming to BFFC, Alex spent over eight years at a leading venture philanthropy firm called New Profit, which gave large grants to nonprofits and coached CEOs to grow their reach and impact. At New Profit, Alex held a few different roles: coordinating internal diversity, equity and inclusion work (and learning every day as a White guy!), leading New Profit’s nonprofit consulting support model, and coordinating various activities like performance measurement and investment selection.

Alex is an entrepreneur at heart. Before New Profit, Alex founded three organizations. He led a tech nonprofit, Charity.is, to increase philanthropy to high-performing nonprofits. He was the founding Director of Programs, and later the Board Chair, at the Millennium Campus Network, which offers a fellowship to thousands of student leaders around the globe in partnership with the United Nations. He also founded Peace through Play, which teaches social-emotional skills and self-identity awareness to hundreds of K-8 students in Boston annually.

In his free time he leads the music project Alex & The People and loves getting his hands dirty building his own mini food forest with his wife Bethany in their backyard in Jamaica Plain. He loves both growing nonprofits and goofing-off with his brothers and sister. Alex's father and grandmother (yia yia) are from the island of Lesvos off the coast of Greece, having immigrated to the US during the Greek Civil War.

Most importantly, Alex is someone you can share a good laugh with while picking apples.