Grantmakers in the News
August 1, 2006
Public Welfare Foundation Names A New President
The Public Welfare Foundation has selected Deborah Leff as its next president and chief executive. Leff is currently director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. She will succeed long-time executive director Larry Kressley, who has announced he will leave the Foundation in October.
Prior to her present position, Leff was president of America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization serving 26 million Americans. From 1992 to 1999, she was president of the Joyce Foundation in Chicago. A graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and the University of Chicago Law School, Leff was an award-winning senior producer of ABC News Nightline and a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Deborah Leff currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sound Portraits, the Peabody Award-winner producer of radio documentaries dedicated to broadening the national debate on such issues as poverty, juvenile justice, prison, and race, as well as the boards of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and the Smith Barney Charitable Trust, Inc. She previously chaired the Midwest Committee for the Selection of Rhodes Scholars and served on the national boards of CARE and the Children's Defense Fund.
Public Welfare Foundation
is located at:
1200 U Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
Telephone: 202/965-1800
FAX: 202/265-8851
E-mail: reviewcommittee@publicwelfare.org
URL: http://www.publicwelfare.org
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