Houston Astros hire Meg Vaillancourt as vice president of community relations- MLB News
The Houston Astros have made an addition to their front office and have brought on board Meg Vaillancourt as the vice president of community relations and as the executive director of the Astros in Action Foundation.
Meg was previously the executive director of the Red Sox Foundation and senior vice president of the Boston Red Sox. She will continue to be a consultant with the Red Sox Foundation during the next year.
Meg is looking forward to carry the vision of the ownership and top management of the Astros. She believes that he can help make the Astros an inspiration for others both on and off the field.
"I look forward to the challenge and opportunities of a new start-up and of working with the Astros in harnessing the enormous entrepreneurial energy of Houston to the impressive strategic vision of the team's new ownership, led by Owner and Chairman Jim
Crane, President and CEO George Postolos and the Astros in Action board," Vaillancourt said.
Vaillancourt is a Rhodes Scholar and an honours graduate from Harvard College. She has been associated with the Boston ball club since 2003. She was prior to that associated with NFL team, the New England Patriots as a vice president of community relations.
Meg ran the Red Sox Foundation with great success and raised about $70 million for nonprofit programmes. It is one of the more successful sports charities, a fact acknowledged by the MLB’s first Commissioner’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence in 2010
and the Patterson Award for the Best Team Charity in Sports.
Jim Crane is excited at signing Meg and believes that she will help their ‘Texas-sized’ goals of engaging everyone from players to fans to all the different ethnic groups and make a difference to the community.
"Given her track record in creating one of the most successful team charities in sports as well as award-winning programs, the Astros are delighted to sign Meg to our team," Crane said.
Jim Crane himself has been active in community work and has been instrumental in initiating a program to uplift community ball parks in collaboration with city officials and corporate sponsors.
Meg will be looking after the program as well. The program will employ veterans that are beginning civilian careers in facility maintenance and landscaping and will continue for a period of several years.
The hiring of Meg Vaillancourt is an inspired decision that can help the Astros in engaging the community better and be able to do better in terms of charitable work. Jim Crane has a great vision for the community and Meg will be a good fit to move those
ambitions forward.
One wishes them well in their noble endeavours and we hope that they will be able to achieve even more success than they are hoping for.
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