 Equally precedent-setting was the Rogersons’ notion of empowering a Distribution Committee, composed of prominent and knowledgeable citizens, to make grants on the basis of need—where the funds could do the greatest good.The genius lay in coupling the constancy of endowment with the flexibility of giving away money, compassionately, to meet changing community needs.In 1985, the foundation was renamed The Boston Foundation, and Anna Faith Jones became the President—the first African-American woman to lead a major foundation in the United States.