Lorie A. Slutsky has been the president of The New York Community Trust since 1990.  She is responsible for managing The Trust’s nearly 2,500 charitable funds, overseeing an operation that distributed about $225 million in grants from an endowment approaching $3 billion.

Ms. Slutsky began her career at The Trust in 1977 and was named executive vice president in 1987.

Ms. Slutsky received her BA from Colgate University, where she served for nine years as a trustee and chairman of the budget committee, and her MA from The New School, where she was a trustee for six years.  She is a former board chairman of the Council on Foundations and BoardSource, treasurer of the Independent Sector, and vice chairman of The Foundation Center. She is a former director of AllianceBernstein Holding, an investment management firm, and AXA Financial, Inc., an insurance company.

Ms. Slutsky co-chaired the Independent Sector’s Panel on the Nonprofit Sector.  She has served on the boards of United Way of New York City, Hispanics in Philanthropy, the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York, the DeWitt Wallace Fund for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.