Juma Crawford

Juma Crawford is the Executive Director of the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation. He has been a leader in the philanthropic, non-profit, and education space for over twenty years. He was President of the Lewis Family Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Kensington Investment Company, one of the leading private real estate development and investment firms in Boston, where he oversaw a $75.2M pledged dollar investment portfolio of both private and corporate giving. In this role, Juma oversees the dissemination on average of $9.8M new grant monies every year to high performing non-profits, schools, and institutions of higher education.
As President, he launched a $14.4M dollar CollegeWorks Campaign that has produced over 1,000 first-generation 4-year college graduates and a tri-sector jobs action tank, a coalition of private-sector businesses, local and state government, and non-profits that have created over $28M worth of full-time, competitive wage jobs for 700+ disconnected youth of color. In 2017, under his leadership, the foundation launched the Strong Leaders Program, which provided over $2M dollars of funding and executive coaching to non-profit and school leaders of color to increase leadership diversity in the non-profit and education sectors.
He grew up in the bay area of California, and moved to MA to attend Amherst College, and continued his education at Harvard University where he obtained a Master's degree in eduction and a law degree from Boston College. Juna was a founding teacher of Codman Academy Charter School and served as principal of Community Charter School of Cambridge, Head of School at CollegeBound Dorchester and Executive Director of Friends of the Children. Through his passion for education and seeing students succeed, Juma encourages students to continue to persevere until they reach their goals.

Oakland Fund for Public Innovation
​Lewis Family Foundation
​Codman Academy
Community Charter School of Cambridge
College Bound Dorchester
Friends of the Children