Jeanne Pinado

Jeanne Pinado, CEO and executive director of Madison Park Development Corporation, a nonprofit community development corporation located in Roxbury, recently received a fellowship from the Barr Foundation in recognition of her extraordinary work in the field of housing. The Barr Fellows Program honors the contributions of the most gifted and experienced leaders in the Boston area.

Barr Fellows are selected based on their past contributions to the community, their potential to continue to contribute at a high level into the next decade, and their demonstrated capacity as social entrepreneurs who learn from their peers locally and globally.

Barr Foundation senior advisor Pat Brandes said the foundation “is pleased to provide [Jeanne] with this opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments of her organization.”

The three-year Barr Fellowships include a sabbatical, international travel, a series of retreats, peer learning opportunities and executive coaching. Pinado is looking forward to traveling to South Africa and Zimbabwe with the Barr Fellows, as well as her husband and three children.

Pinado serves as the treasurer of Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, a member of the executive committee of the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association and a trustee of the Roxbury Trust Fund, Charlesbank Homes and Foley Hoag foundations. She also serves as a board member of the Cleveland-based Neighborhood Capital Corporation.

In 2003, Pinado received the African American Achievement Award for Community Service from the City of Boston and in 2005 received the Suzanne King Public Service Award from New England Women in Real Estate.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia University.