Jim Ansara, an AARP 2024 Purpose Prize winner, joined Retirement Wisdom’s podcast in October 2024, in which Jim discussed how he is making a big difference in his retirement with his organization Build Health International. How might you redirect your skills and experience to make a difference? Tune in for some inspiration from Jim.

Jim Ansara was featured in ConstructionDive.com in a Q&A that showcaseshow he began as the founder of Shawmut who now builds global healthcare projects in his retirement.

Constructing Hope: Jim Ansara’s Mission to Revolutionize Global Healthcare, from construction CEO to global health pioneer.

Jim Ansara reached a new milestone as he was named a recipient of the 2025 AARP Purpose Prize award. Learn more about Jim’s passion for transforming health care in crisis zones across the globe in this AARP spotlight video.

Thanks to donor-advised funds, Fidelity Charitable is now the country’s largest public charity. But critics say these accounts can warehouse billions of dollars indefinitely without reaching charities. Read more in The Boston Globe.

Alliance in collaboration with WINGS has been commissioned by Propel Philanthropy to conduct a 10-part interview series on the work of Social Impact Infrastructure Organisations (SIIOs) and the benefits they bring to the sector. In this instalment of the series of conversations with the representatives of SIIOs, Andrew Milner talks to Karen Ansara of NEID Global.

Veteran contractor Jim Ansara wins 2022 ENR Award of Excellence for plowing through obstacles to build sustainable and resilient medical infrastructure in resource-starved regions around the world.

In response to the August 14 earthquake in southern Haiti, Engineering Record took a deep dive into the operations of Jim Ansara’s health care non-profit, Build Health International.

The tragedy of humanity is that we, at times, learn nothing from the past. But the stakes are too high to repeat our mistakes this time. Haitians are again being cruelly tested by a catastrophic earthquake.

On August 13 a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti’s Southern Peninsula. The quake damaged many dwellings and buildings, including in the cities of Les Cayes, Jeremie and on the island of Ile a Vache below the peninsula. Over 1,300 have perished as of this writing, with many more expected.

In the wake of the crises of 2020, the philanthropic community has been reaching deeper to become more strategic and more effective. TPI launched the Adaptable Funder series to find out what skills and practices some funders are finding most useful in tumultuous times and what lessons they are learning.

On July 14 WCVB-TV Channel 5’s Erika Tarantal aired a segment about Build Health International, entitled: 5 for Good: Beverly-based Build Health International responds to COVID pandemic: Local organization builds health care infrastructure in needy countries.

Smartly, Haitians teach us, “Saw pa konnen, pi gran pase’w.” (What you don’t know is greater than you.) For me, that is certainly true. I’m not an expert on philanthropy or Haiti, but I am perpetually seeking greater understanding. In that spirit, I engaged the Center for Global Philanthropy at The Philanthropic Initiative in Boston.

These remarks were delivered at the June 2, 2018 Commencement for Landmark High School in Prides Crossing, MA. Landmark is 2-12th grade day and boarding school with a special focus on educating bright students with language-based learning disabilities. First-in-class, Landmark draws students from across the US and other countries.

I am pleased to join the inaugural Dean’s Advisory Board for the new Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, which brings together all faculty and their departments offering undergraduate and graduate programs in Global Studies.

Based on my life-changing year in the TPW Cohort Program, I helped found an international philanthropy network for philanthropists, grantmakers, social investors, and advisors called New England International Donors (NEID). Nearly ten years later, that project has born much fruit!

What do you do when you witness profound need? Do you stand by and feel badly, or do you do something about it? Changemakers Jim Ansara, founder of Build Health International and hunger advocate and Boston chef Michael Scelfo (Alden & Harlow, Waypoint) are driven by the need to make a difference. Listen to the full.

This interview was originally published in this week’s issue of BNID‘s newsletter. Read this dynamic interview with Jim Ansara, a Boston-area construction leader and the founder of Build Health International. Jim has spent much of his working life growing infrastructure capacity for health care delivery in low-income countries around the world. Click here for the full interview.

Aerial view of the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation hospital in Fond de Blanc, Southern Peninsula Haiti. (Credit: Terry Sebastian)This story is featured on the website Humanosphere on Feb. 1, 2017:Build Health International: Making Haiti’s hospitals resilient and sustainable In a country starved for resources with a crippled public health system, one nonprofit is determined to make more of Haiti’s health-care facilities.

Dear Supporter,This is no ordinary triumph. This is historic.This is the moment that the Irish poet Seamus Heaney foretold as the rising up of that “once in a lifetime…longed-for tidal wave of justice,” when “hope and history rhyme.”When the leader of 193 nations apologized on December 1 from his grand carpeted chamber at the UN.