Vetto Casado
(He/Him/His)

Vetto Casado serves as Assistant Director, Programs at The Boston Foundation. In his role, Vetto oversees and co-leads existing elements of the Social Justice Ecology framework, which aims to support the conditions for social justice to thrive in Greater Boston by providing access to resources and support for people, movements and nonprofit organizations working to disrupt persistent structural and institutional inequity in our region. Vetto is a native of the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of six, settling with his family in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

He served previously as Executive Director of Small Can Be Big Inc. During his tenure, SCBB grew its regional profile, provided vital flexible funding resources to over 600 families and averted hundreds of evictions throughout the Greater Boston Area via online crowd-funded initiatives.

Vetto holds a B.A. in Political Science from UMass Boston, and is an alum of Harvard Kennedy School’s Latino Leadership Initiative, and Tufts University’s Institute of Nonprofit Practice. In the summer of 2017, Vetto was nominated to serve on Governor Baker’s Massachusetts Latino Advisory Commission for the remainder of his term.