Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Nellie Mae Education Foundation President Nick Donohue to discuss the foundation’s new direction. This new direction focuses on "student-centered" learning opportunities exploring different ways to engage students, different places students learn and different people students connect with to help them achieve skills and knowledge. The Quincy, Mass.-based foundation is the largest charitable organization in New England that focuses exclusively on education. Donohue has been president and CEO of the foundation since late 2006.

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