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Marshall Strauss, President
Strauss has been active in the not for profit field for more than a quarter century and has been involved in the CFC for much of that time.
Mr. Strauss served as chair of the National CFC Committee for two years and remains a member of that body. For many years, he was also treasurer of the Combined Federal Campaign Foundation.
Beginning in September 2011 and concluding in July 2012, Mr. Strauss served on the U.S. government's CFC 50 Commission which recommended a number of improvements to the operation of the CFC. The Commission's report was released in the summer of 2012.
Mr. Strauss helped found several CFC federations. He has also served on a number of national and local not for profit organization boards.
During the early 1990s, Mr. Strauss helped establish and served as the initial CEO of two international organizations whose programs supported democracy activists overseas: The Democracy for China Fund and Freedom Channel. As executive director of the former, he organized and participated in the 1991 human rights delegation to China led by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. During his tenure at Freedom Channel, that organization produced and aired on nationwide Russian television numerous human rights documentaries.
During the 1980s, Mr. Strauss served as associate director of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Child Welfare League of America. Earlier, he served as special assistant to Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent and special assistant to U.S. Senator John Durkin, among other positions. Strauss was a research associate at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from 1994-96, and an adjunct member of the faculty of Emerson College in 1995. Here and overseas, he has been interviewed extensively on issues of human rights and philanthropy by, among others, the Associated Press, UPI, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, ABC News, Actuel (Paris), BBC, Russian National Television, Chronicle of Philanthropy, GovExec, Federal Times and Nonprofit Quarterly.
Strauss has been active in the not for profit field for more than a quarter century and has been involved in the CFC for much of that time.
Mr. Strauss served as chair of the National CFC Committee for two years and remains a member of that body. For many years, he was also treasurer of the Combined Federal Campaign Foundation.
Beginning in September 2011 and concluding in July 2012, Mr. Strauss served on the U.S. government's CFC 50 Commission which recommended a number of improvements to the operation of the CFC. The Commission's report was released in the summer of 2012.
Mr. Strauss helped found several CFC federations. He has also served on a number of national and local not for profit organization boards.
During the early 1990s, Mr. Strauss helped establish and served as the initial CEO of two international organizations whose programs supported democracy activists overseas: The Democracy for China Fund and Freedom Channel. As executive director of the former, he organized and participated in the 1991 human rights delegation to China led by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. During his tenure at Freedom Channel, that organization produced and aired on nationwide Russian television numerous human rights documentaries.
During the 1980s, Mr. Strauss served as associate director of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Child Welfare League of America. Earlier, he served as special assistant to Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent and special assistant to U.S. Senator John Durkin, among other positions. Strauss was a research associate at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from 1994-96, and an adjunct member of the faculty of Emerson College in 1995. Here and overseas, he has been interviewed extensively on issues of human rights and philanthropy by, among others, the Associated Press, UPI, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, ABC News, Actuel (Paris), BBC, Russian National Television, Chronicle of Philanthropy, GovExec, Federal Times and Nonprofit Quarterly.