Type of service: Youth mentoring organization
Connecticut employees: 20
Headquarters: Hartford
Top Executive: Laura Greene, president and CEO
Nomination category: Nonprofit executive of the year
Laura Greene has been CEO of Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters for 15 years. When she began, approximately 600 at-risk youths were being individually matched with adult mentors. Today, that number is about 1,800.
In 2004, Greene established the COMET program, a mentoring program specifically designed to address the unique needs of children whose primary caregivers are incarcerated.
Recognizing a need to reach out to Latinos, the state’s largest growing ethnic population, in 2005, she established Nutmeg’s Latino Mentoring Program. Her efforts won recognition for Nutmeg in 2007 by the State of Connecticut’s Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission, which presented Nutmeg with its Community Service Award.
