Executive Director
The Edward E. Ford Foundation
Brooklyn, New York
John Gulla became the Executive Director of the Edward E. Ford Foundation on July 1, 2013. EE Ford, in its approximately 65 years of making grants, has distributed over $133,000,000 to about 1000 different independent schools. For the preceding 14 years, Gulla was Head of School at The Blake School, a 123 year-old school enrolling 1400 students on three campuses in and around Minneapolis. He has also held administrative and teaching positions at Riverdale Country School, Isidore Newman and St. Ann’s in Brooklyn . A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University and Amherst College, he grew up the son of two public school teachers in Red Sox Nation just outside Boston. He helped found Fund for Teachers and has served on its Board since its inception in 1998, having chaired it for many years. He has also currently serves on the Board of High Mountain Institute where he was Chair of the Finance Committee for many years. Other Board services included ISACS, MAIS, Milkweed Editions, the Minnesota Chapter of the ACLU, among others. He and his wife, Andrea, have two grown sons and live in Brooklyn.
Effective Financial Governance and Leadership in Independent Schools
Sunday, February 23, 2025
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM ET