Josh Kraft, Nicholas President and CEO, is in his 25^th year of serving youth at Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. Prior to accepting his current role in 2008, he was the Founding Executive Director of BGCB’s Gerald and Darlene Jordan Club in Chelsea. For 15 years, he led the after-school program from the basement of a public housing development, until the current state-of-the-art building could be built.

Josh serves on the boards of Beaver Country Day School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, is an overseer for the Museum of Science and Lasell College, and is also a volunteer soccer coach in Newton.

Concurrently, Josh is the President of New England Patriots Charitable Foundation where he oversees numerous initiatives, such as the Community MVP Awards and License Plate Campaign. He received his Bachelor’s from Williams College, and his Master’s in Education and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.