Jeff Glebocki is nationally recognized for his extensive and far-reaching service to the philanthropic and nonprofit communities. His work is based on passion and advocacy for equity in disadvantaged communities through strategic program development, effective grantmaking, and the enhancement of organizational and human capacities. He brings a particular expertise in working with family and private foundations as senior staff and as a consultant.

Jeff has completed the National Center for Family Philanthropy training necessary to lead a family foundation through its Pursuit of Excellence Assessment Process. This is the first such tool designed specifically for family foundations, and enables them to understand their strengths as well as areas for improvement around legacy, vision, mission, governance, family involvement, board functions, grantmaking, fiscal oversight and foundation management. The tool measures a foundation's views both on how they currently operate and what they aspire to.

Genetically hard-wired to make change, and from as far back as his community service efforts in elementary school, Jeff acts when he sees things that could be better, more effective, and made right. He works to change the systems and environments that limit opportunity or support for people, ideas, or places so they achieve their full potential, as well as working to create venues for people to share ideas and create new ways of doing things.

He is founder and principal of Strategy + Action Consulting, LLC which serves philanthropies, institutions and nonprofits in the strategic development of their organizations and programs. Clients include:

• The Center on Education Policy (Washington, DC)
• The Helios Education Foundation (Phoenix and Tampa)
• The Ellis Center for Educational Excellence (Phoenix)
• The Thomas H. Maren Foundation (Gainesville, FL)
• Indiana Grantmakers Alliance (Indianapolis)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Networks (Washington, DC)
• College Access Foundation of California (San Francisco)
• Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque)
• The Ramsey Executive Education Program at Arizona State University’s School of Public Affairs (Phoenix)
• The Norton School of Consumer and Family Sciences at the University of Arizona (Tucson)

Jeff is also a speaker at and presenter of workshops throughout the country for foundation board and staff, nonprofit organizations, higher education institutions and public agencies. He has served as a consultant to The Key Trust Company for The Kenneth A. Scott Charitable Trust, The George Gund Foundation, The Center for Leadership in Education, and Common Ground: The Cindy Nord Center for Renewal, among others.

He has worked as senior program staff for three family and private foundations. Jeff managed the youth development program area for The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust in Scottsdale, Arizona, one of that state’s largest foundations, and designed a process to refine the Trust’s approach in the youth field. He was part of the Education Policy Work Group of the Arizona Youth Development Task Force at the invitation of Governor Janet Napolitano; the Executive Committee of the Maricopa Council on Youth Sports and Physical Activity; and the Program Committee of the Arizona Community Foundation’s Tapestry Fund.

At The George Gund Foundation in Cleveland, the largest family foundation in Ohio, Jeff oversaw education grantmaking of up to $5 million annually. His work was instrumental in contributing to the measured improvement of student achievement in urban schools, increased public support for public education, and the strengthening of public policy and nonprofit infrastructure to sustain school reform. Jeff also managed grantmaking in higher education, national school improvement policy, and special projects. He was appointed to the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management by Governor Bob Taft.

Jeff served as founding program officer for The Nord Family Foundation’s civic affairs program in Lorain County, Ohio and Columbia, South Carolina, increasing opportunities in disadvantaged communities. He created and managed two countywide Foundation initiatives to build the capacity of local communities and organizations - the Public Service Internship Program, and the Grassroots Leadership Development Program. Governor George V. Voinovich appointed Jeff to the State of Ohio’s Housing Trust Fund Advisory Committee.

He has served on the board of Grantmakers for Education, the national affinity group for education funders, as well as on several of that group’s committees, including the effort to develop “Principles for Effective Education Grantmaking.” Jeff was a founding board member of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), a new national affinity group; was a long-time board member of the Grantmaker Forum on Community and National Service and chair of their 2002 national conference; a board member of the Donors Forum of Ohio, the regional association of grantmakers for that state, and sat on several committees of its successor, the Ohio Grantmakers Forum. He has also served as Executive Director of two community-based neighborhood economic development organizations, and was co-founder of a third such nonprofit.

Jeff Glebocki resides in Tucson, Arizona where you are likely to find him on his road bike or hiking in the nearby mountains.