Q&A with James Piper Bond (CEO of Living Classrooms)

James Piper Bond is President and CEO of Living Classrooms Foundation, a non-profit educational organization that provides hands-on education and job training programs in challenging settings.

From one of the oldest families in Baltimore, Maryland, James Piper Bond has seen the city face its share of challenges, but he has also seen the opportunities to provide its community members new experiences that may not have been previously available. After sailing across the South Pacific, he returned to Baltimore in 1986 and began working with the Lady Maryland Foundation as a volunteer, later becoming the Foundation’s first full-time employee as education director. The Lady Maryland Foundation was later renamed to Living Classrooms in 1992. Since joining the nonprofit over 30 years ago, James Piper Bond has devoted his time and energy to building connections with people of all ages and to developing experiences to work toward disrupting the cycle of poverty.

About Living Classrooms Foundation

Established in 1985 using unique learning environments, Living Classrooms provides access to more equitable education, workforce development, community safety, and health and wellness opportunities that enable individuals to achieve their aspirations and build safer, stronger, and healthier communities for all.

For over three decades, we have collaborated with community members in Baltimore and Washington, DC to create diverse programs that are community-driven, research-based, and ultimately designed to disrupt the ecosystem of poverty that can be directly traced to historic and contemporary racial, social, and economic disparities. Our programs and best practices value the priorities and aspirations of community members and deliver both opportunity and results.

From serving a few hundred people in our initial year with the building of the educational vessel Lady Maryland, Living Classrooms has grown to serve over 30,000 children, youth, and adults annually at 30 different sites across the Baltimore and Washington, DC region.

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