CONNECTION Interviews Nellie Mae
Education Foundation President Nicholas Donohue
Nicholas C. Donohue is the new president and CEO of the Quincy, Mass.-based Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the largest philanthropy in New England devoted exclusively to education. Donohue succeeds Blenda J. Wilson, who wrote regularly for CONNECTION before retiring in December 2006. Donohue has been a classroom teacher, a university trustee and commissioner of education for the state of New Hampshire. Most recently, he served as special master of Hope High School in Providence, R.I., where he was appointed to oversee implementation of the Rhode Island commissioner of education's order to restructure the ...