2002 Humanitarian Award

National Conference for Community and Justice

2002

Mr. Glassman is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Wainwright Bank & Trust Company, a publicly traded Boston-based commercial bank with over $500 million in assets. The bank is distinguished by its commitment to social justice, which finds expression through all phases of its operation.

In addition to the activities of Wainwright Bank, Mr. Glassman personally engages in a number of efforts as both a social entrepreneur and civic leader. In 1984 he established the Glassman Fellowship fund at the Harvard Business School, which provides inner-city public school students with scholarship assistance. He also helped to launch the William Joiner Foundation for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts Boston, which promotes scholarship and teaching on war, provides support to Vietnamese citizens on health-related issues, and engages in cultural exchanges for artists and writers from Vietnam and the United States.

As a civic leader, Mr. Glassman has served as a board member and advisor to numerous Boston institutions, including The Boston Foundation, the Mayor's AIDS Housing Task Force, and the Trust for Public Land. He also is Director of Trillium Asset Management Corporation. In 2000, President Clinton appointed Mr. Glassman to the National Veterans Business Development Corporation, which assists disabled veterans in becoming successful business entrepreneurs.

Mr. Glassman has received numerous awards, among them the AIDS Action Committee's Distinguished Leadership Award and the American Jewish Committee's Human Relations Award. In addition to his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and MBA from Harvard Business School, Mr. Glassman holds an honorary doctorate in humane letters from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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