Allyce Najimy is the CEO and Executive Director of the Foundation To Be Named Later (FTBNL).  Named after the Major-League Baseball trade term, “player to be named later“, the foundation was launched twelve years ago by Theo Epstein, former Red Sox EVP and General Manager and current Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations and his twin brother Paul Epstein, MSW, with the mission of supporting youth and families from disadvantaged neighborhoods.  The foundation raises money and has donated over $13Million in grants and scholarships to more than 250 innovative, creative, effective non-profits that promote education, leadership and healthy development in Boston and Chicago.  FTBNL also sends deserving young people to college through their Peter Gammons College Scholarships, which Allyce created.  FTBNL hosts concerts in Boston and Chicago called the Hot Stove Cool Music Series featuring generous artists who donate their talent such as Eddie Vedder, James Taylor, Tom Morello, Cheap Trick, Liz Phair and many others.  FTBNL also hosts baseball and diversity panels, celebrating music, baseball and giving back to raise awareness and funds. 

Allyce has spent the past two and a half decades working in sports, higher education and community service organizations to live up to her hero Jackie Robinson’s words that, “the importance of one’s life is measured in the impact it has on other lives.”  After beginning her career as a teacher, she joined City Year as a founding staff member in1990 and worked for a decade there expanding City Year around the country.  She later worked as the COO for the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University under Dr. Richard Lapchick, who is known as the “social conscience of sport”.

Today, in addition to her work at Foundation To Be Named Later, Allyce is an adjunct professor at University of Massachusetts Boston and is one of the founders of their new Sport Leadership Administration Bachelor Degree Program presented by New Balance.  She works on large scale, high profile events for Chicago Children’s Choir, Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy Foundation and The Grammys Music Academy.  She serves as a trustee of Beacon Academy, The Institute for Sport and Social Justice, The New England Sports Museum, The Martin Richard Institute for Social Justice and The Massachusetts Cultural Council.   She has her Masters in Education from UMASS Boston and a Bachelor in Psychology and Counseling from Assumption College.  She has travelled the world and ran 5 Boston Marathons raising money for important causes.  She mentors many young people and advises many non-profits including Project 351, The Wonderfund, Big Sisters, The Base, Roxbury Youthworks, West End House Boys and Girls Club and Fresh Truck, Zumix, Youth Guidance and City Year.