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Jeffrey Dekro
Senior Vice President - Jewish Funds for Justice
USA
Jeffrey Dekro is Senior Vice President of Jewish FundS for Justice, which was formed in 2006 from the merger of The Shefa Fund and the Jewish Fund for Justice. As the founder and president of Shefa from 1988 to 2006, Jeffrey conceived and leads the TZEDEC community investing program. Prior to founding Shefa, he was Associate Director of The Shalom Center, the national resource and organizing center for Jewish perspectives on the nuclear arms race. In 1980, Jeffrey helped found New Jewish Agenda, and later served as its co-Director. In 1981, while Community Affairs Director at the Institute for the Study of Civic Values, he co-founded and was Co-Director of the Philadelphia Jobs in Energy Project (PJIEP), which developed an energy conservation/jobs creation program for low-income residents. Jeffrey was also a founding board member of The Reinvestment Fund in Philadelphia, the nation's leading low-income community development loan fund. He is co-author of three books, including Jews, Money and Social Responsibility.
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