Organizational Advisor

Gregory Cohen brings 40 years of nonprofit management experience to WMW's parent organization, Philanthropy Leaders, which is the 12th nonprofit he has helped to create. In retirement, Greg has supported amputee families and education programs in Sierra Leone, including developing an adult learning center with USACF. He has strengthened local and global organizations by building organizational capacity through fundraising training, engaging boards, elevating public awareness, and aligning mission with program outcomes, particularly for 17 years, as Associate Director at Cause Effective.  He was the founder of Comprehensive Youth Development (CYD), a nonprofit associated with Manhattan Comprehensive Night & Day High School. CYD supports to 800 students a year, using over 100 volunteers. His work at CYD was 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 advised 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 School and the New School.  He served on the board of Nonprofit New York (NPCC) for 20 years and was a participant in Coro's Leadership NY II. He holds a BA from Union College. He lives with his wife, Viviane Arzoumanian, and, to his delight, in the same house as the families of his two adult daughters and his grandchild in Brooklyn.