Jeanne Pinado is the President and Executive Director of Madison Park Development Corporation (Madison Park), a non-profit community development corporation in Roxbury. Established in 1966 in the heat of urban renewal, Madison Park developed and owns 1,250 units of multi-family housing. In the past five years, Madison Park has embarked upon a strategy to develop owner-occupied housing, producing 93 affordable homeownership units, including the 60-unit Davenport Commons project that won the 2003 Fannie Mae Foundation Maxwell Award of Excellence.
Before joining Madison Park in 1998, Ms. Pinado served for four years as a Senior Equity Investment Officer at Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation (MHIC), where she financed low-income housing tax credits projects throughout Massachusetts and provided technical assistance to non-profit organizations developing housing and mixed-use projects. Prior to MHIC, she served as a Project Manager for Metropolitan Structures for six years, working on development of commercial office buildings in downtown Boston and in Roxbury.
Ms. Pinado holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She serves as the treasurer of Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC) and is a member of the Executive Committee of Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA). She also serves as board member of the Cleveland-based Neighborhood Capital Corporation.
In 2003, Jeanne received the African-American Achievement Award for Community Service from The City of Boston and in 2005 received the Suzanne King Public Service Award from New England Women in Real Estate. She resides in Jamaica Plain with her husband and three children.
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