Larry Kressley

Biographical Information

"Larry was the Executive Director of the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington D.C. from 1991-2006. He joined the Foundation’s staff in 1982 as a program officer and progressed to senior program officer. His program work at Public Welfare included environmental justice and international human rights. He is a graduate of Goddard College and received a master’s degree in organization management from Antioch New England. Larry currently serves on the board of directors of Stop It Now! and The Hesperian Foundation, and also serves as a trustee of Goddard College. He has served as a board member and co-chair of the National Network of Grantmakers; as a board member and vice chair of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; as a member of the Committee on Inclusiveness of the Council on Foundations; on the steering committee of the Working Group on Funding Lesbian and Gay Issues; and as a director of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, the Center for Economic Justice and the Share Foundation."^[1]