Who We Are

Leadership

Roca has a strong team that provides leadership to Roca. The team includes: Joe Fico, President and CEO of TD Banknorth Insurance Agency who serves as President of the Board of Directors; Molly Baldwin, Executive Director; Anisha Chablani, Deputy Director; and Jacob Sauerborn, Chief Fiscal Officer.

This management team has extensive combined experience management, non-profit finance, youth development, workforce development, high risk youth work, business development, and community organizing, and helps guide a team of about 51 full-time and 20 part-time staff members. Roca’s board is comprised of 15 individuals from varying fields of expertise, including development, communications, human services and finance.

Capacity

The rigor of Roca's High Risk Youth Intervention Model necessitates a strong organizational culture where learning, personal experience, leading with values, and having deep faith are essential to achieve of bold goals with disenfranchised young people.  Roca utilizes a performance-based management system that is directly linked to the theory of change and doing whatever it takes to get young people to the outcomes.  Roca is committed to being a high performing and an adaptive organization that uses real-time data for continuous improvement and evaluating our impact.  Roca operates from a business plan, is fiscally conservative, and successfully navigates changing social and political environments to ensure sustainability.  Roca believes it is a privilege and honor to work with these young people, therefore, we challenge ourselves each day to be worthy of the opportunity.