The Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC), the nation’s single most successful athletic fundraiser, is announcing two new members, Melany Duval and Setti D. Warren, joining the PMC Board of Directors, which provides fiduciary and strategic oversight to the organization. The PMC, a two-day bike-a-thon that has raised more than three quarters of a billion dollars for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 1980, donates 100 percent of every rider-raised dollar as the Institute’s largest single contributor and accounts for 64% of its Jimmy Fund’s annual revenue.
Melany Duval is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. In this role, she is responsible for all philanthropic initiatives for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund, including Dana-Farber’s relationship with the PMC. She leads the Division of Philanthropy and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team at Dana-Farber. Prior to this, she was Vice President of Development at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the largest community foundation in the world. Since her move to Boston just a few years ago, Duval has participated in the PMC as both a rider, volunteer and fundraiser; she looks forward to extending her participation in the PMC community through her new role as a member of the PMC Board of Directors.
Setti D. Warren currently serves as the Executive Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School. He previously served as Mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, from 2010 to 2018 and was the first African American to be a popularly elected mayor in the state. Warren’s extensive career in public service started through his service as special assistant in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs for President Bill Clinton, as New England director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and as deputy state director for Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA). Warren has been a member of the PMC community for over a decade as a rider, volunteer and fundraiser.
PMC founder and executive director Billy Starr is looking forward to the impact these new additions to the Board of Directors will have, saying, “On behalf of the Pan-Mass Challenge community, I am thrilled to welcome Setti and Melany, and I am eager to capture the value they will bring to the PMC in their new, elevated roles on our Board. Their track records of leadership and success in the areas of philanthropy, diversity, equity and inclusion will help us to drive continued growth for our organization, which is vital to the cancer community now more than ever.”
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