Camp Harbor View Foundation

Camp Harbor View Foundation

The foundation emerged from a conversation between Connors and Menino about idle Long Island facilities. Since 2007, Camp Harbor View has operated its core summer program on Long Island in Boston Harbor, adding year-round leadership development and family support services. The foundation maintains a South End office and dedicated program spaces in Roxbury and Dorchester. A guaranteed income partnership with UpTogether marks its shift toward direct economic intervention alongside traditional youth programming. Camp Harbor View deploys its endowment to underwrite all programs at no cost to participants, sustaining a year-round footprint that spans a summer camp on Long Island, an off-season city campus in Roxbury, and the Connors Leadership Academy in Dorchester. A guaranteed income pilot launched with UpTogether signals a move into direct cash-transfer programming. The foundation's physical asset base includes its Long Island campus, the South End headquarters at 46 Plympton Street, and the Southline Building in Dorchester, each supporting distinct operational arms. The foundation operates with a lean professional staff anchored by President and CEO Sharon McNally, who also serves as Chief of Staff at the Connors Family Office. The board draws together Boston institutional leaders: Chairman Bill O'Malley of Income Research + Management, Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish, Eversource Energy CEO Joe Nolan, Kraft Family Philanthropies President Josh Kraft, and Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy. The Connors Family Office provides administrative backbone — accounting, facilities, and staff time — blurring the line between foundation and family office. Camp Harbor View's structural differentiator is its dual operating model: a direct-service nonprofit tightly bolted to a family-office back office. The Connors Family Office supplies administrative infrastructure, while the board unites six-figure Boston executives around a single-site, place-based mission. This hybrid architecture concentrates philanthropic firepower on one geography — Boston's underserved neighborhoods — through owned real estate, family-office resources, and a board weighted toward operating CEOs rather than professional grantmakers.