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Chief Executive Officer

City Year, an organization that recruits young people for community service in 24 U.S. cities, as well as London and Johannesburg.

Jeff Franco has been the Executive Director of City Year Washington, DC and Vice President of City Year Inc. since February 2008. City Year is an education-focused nonprofit organization that brings together a diverse group of 17-24 year olds for a year of full-time service in the most underserved schools in the DC. Under Franco’s leadership, City Year Washington, DC has doubled the size of its staff, tripled the number of schools served from 4 to 16, and quadrupled the number of students served. Since his arrival at City Year, Franco has more than doubled the organization's fundraising capacity from $2.6 million to $7.2 million. Franco has nearly 25 years of experience in the business development and management and has a successful track record of implementing corporate business development and nonprofit strategic growth plans. Directly prior to joining City Year, Franco served as the Director of Global Business Development and Project Manager at Voxiva, a technology company specializing in disease surveillance systems for HIV-AIDS, SARS and Avian Flu in developing world countries. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Consultant at Bearingpoint Consulting, Associate Director of Marketing and Sales at Corporate Executive Board, and a Consultant at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group. Outside of his professional work, Franco volunteers with Covenant House Youth Homeless Shelter, Food and Friends, and DC Central Kitchen. Franco was named 2013 American University Kogod School of Business Alumni of the Year, is an alumnus of the Aspen Institute Socrates Program, and is a 2010 graduate of Leadership Greater Washington. He graduated with a B.A. from Fairfield University, and has a Masters in International Affairs and an M.B.A. from American University. Franco is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, enjoys traveling, has completed 5 marathons and an Ironman triathlon, and walked the 500 mile Camino de Santiago in Spain in June 2013. Specialties: Training Business Development Strategic planning Project procurement and management Business process reengineering Proposal writing ROI analysis Change management Consumer, private and public sector marketing International trade issues and international financing