About Gregory Cohen

Gregory Cohen advises a wide variety of nonprofit organizations through his company, NGO Consulting, Inc. and as a Senior Associate at Cause Effective. He is an advisor on organizational advancement to NPOKI, a collaboration of global health organizations which seek a shared performance management system for tracking outcomes from their programs worldwide. He is also a consultant to the InsideNGO, the trade association of operations staff of US-based NGOs. He was the founder of Comprehensive Development, Inc., a nonprofit associated with Manhattan Comprehensive Night & Day High School. CDI was his fifth nonprofit start-up. CDI provides supports to 800 students a year, using over 200 volunteers. He left CDI, which had a budget of $1 million, nearly all from private sources, and a staff of 25, with a new multiyear contract for $1.2 million annually with the NYC Department of Education, in part a result of a 15 site replication throughout New York of the CDI-school partnership. This partnership has been the focus of a front page story in the New York Times and a special edition of PBS' NOW With Bill Moyers.

Previously, Greg ran the housing development program at the New York Urban Coalition for 13 years, where he created over 270 units of  housing financed by over $27 million.  These projects included permanent housing for survivors of domestic violence and CATCH a nonprofit which converts foreclosed apartments into tenant cooperatives.

Greg is a certified trainer in nonprofit ethics by the Institute for Global Ethics.  He also advises the Institute on their plan to expand to schools nationwide.   He has been a Guest Instructor on "Fundraising For New Nonprofit Ventures" at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service since 2000. 

He is a Vice Chair of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of NY and was a participant in Coro's Leadership NY II. He holds a BA from Union College. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Brooklyn.

Gregory Cohen's Resume

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