The Fund for Sandwich: Paul Houlihan

Paul Houlihan has extensive experience in organizational management and consulting. This includes serving as President of The School for Field Studies (SFS), an international, field-based, environmental research and community development organization serving indigenous communities in Kenya, Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia and the British West Indies.

Paul’s career has included: principal consultant to Cambridge-based Clean Energy Solutions, a national energy efficiency consulting firm; Associate Professor/Associate Director of the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts; Vice President/General Manager of the Conservation Services Group; Executive Director of the South Middlesex Opportunity Council, and community organizer in Boston’s South End and Roxbury.

Paul served on The Cape Cod Foundation’s Board of Directors from 2018-2024, where he also chaired the  annual grants committee.

Paul was born and raised in Framingham and has lived in Sandwich since 2005. He earned a B.A. from St. John’s Seminary College and a Master’s Degree in Urban Sociology from Boston College.