Fundraising infrastructure
The systems that fund H4H’s work, built from the ground up over six years and still growing.
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Executive committee
Jacob Rose.
Chief Financial Officer & Head of Analytics
Boston, MA · H4H International
Six years building the fundraising and financial infrastructure H4H runs on — and the analytics that tell the organisation what its work is actually doing.
2020
with H4H since
Current role
Chief Financial Officer & Head of Analytics
Based in
Boston, Massachusetts
Discipline
Healthcare and business analytics
Focus
Fundraising, financial operations, and chapter analytics
Jacob Rose joined Hearts for the Homeless in his first year of college looking for purpose, and found a community of like-minded people creating positive impact in underserved areas around the world.
Over six years he built the fundraising and financial infrastructure that H4H now runs on, and today he leads all of the organisation’s technological and financial operations. He serves as Chief Financial Officer, Head of Analytics, and Principal Investigator for the Blood Pressure Analytics Research initiative.
Professionally, he works in healthcare analytics, building dashboard systems for patient outcome tracking at Boston-area hospitals. He is pursuing a Master of Science in Business Analytics at Boston University, with a concentration in Healthcare Analytics.
Looking ahead, Jacob plans to grow H4H’s fundraising base, strengthen the alumni programme, and expand analytical capabilities across chapters — all in service of the communities H4H supports.
Service record
A journey through H4H.
From a first-year volunteer to the finance and analytics leadership of an international organisation.
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2020
Volunteer
Hearts for the HomelessJoined in his first year of college looking for purpose, and found a community of like-minded people creating positive impact in underserved areas around the world.
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Six years
Fundraising and Financial Infrastructure
H4H InternationalBuilt the fundraising systems and the financial infrastructure that the organisation now runs on.
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Present
Chief Financial Officer & Head of Analytics
H4H InternationalLeads all technological and financial operations across the organisation, and is expanding analytical capability out to the chapters.
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Present
Principal Investigator
Blood Pressure Analytics ResearchServes as principal investigator on H4H’s Blood Pressure Analytics Research initiative, alongside his finance and analytics leadership.
Contribution
Finance, and the systems behind it.
Four areas of H4H’s operations that Jacob built or now leads.
Financial operations
Budgeting, reporting, and the financial discipline that keeps a volunteer-run international organisation on solid ground.
Technology and analytics
H4H’s technological operations, and the analytical capability now being extended out to individual chapters.
Blood pressure analytics
Principal investigator on the research initiative putting H4H’s screening work onto an analytical footing.
Growing the fundraising base, strengthening the alumni programme, and expanding analytical capability across every chapter — in service of the communities H4H supports.
What drives his work
Finance and Grants
Work with the finance department
Jacob’s team funds and measures H4H’s work — from a chapter’s first fundraiser to the analytics behind an international study.