Steve Greeley is president of Shared Cause. In addition to managing the firm, he serves as lead consultant on projects involving strategic planning, building partnerships, mobilizing resources, and helping clients ultimately achieve transformational social change. He was instrumental in formulating the Cause Development® methodology.

His recent focus involves building new statewide systems of support for families and young children in Nevada and Mississippi. Steve served as a community consultant for the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, a national effort of more than 300 cities and towns working to insure children’s reading proficiency by Grade 3. He also participated in a multi-year project to design and coordinate technical assistance for a Lumina Foundation 75-city initiative to improve post-secondary attainment.

Closer to our Boston home base, Steve directed the planning for Thrive In 5, a comprehensive public and private initiative aimed at making all Boston children ready to succeed in kindergarten. He later became the lead consultant for the Boston Opportunity Agenda, a long-term cradle-to-career public and private collaborative.

In the health field, Steve’s projects have included the design of and funding for the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids and the design of strategies for the Global Fund for Children’s Vaccines, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and initiatives of Harvard Medical School and its hospital affiliates.

He has been a featured speaker for the National League of Cities, Kellogg Foundation national programs, National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and numerous other social change entities. Prior to joining the firm in 1995, Steve had extensive experience in fundraising, serving as director of development programs and public affairs at the Massachusetts General Hospital, director of development at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and director of corporate and foundation relations at Bentley University.

He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master’s degree at the Boston University School of Public Communication.