Jeff Jablow has spent his professional career taking an inclusive and strategic approach to increasing organizational impact. Jeff serves as the Deputy Chief Philanthropy Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As the Division of Philanthropy’s No. 2 lead, Jeff has day-to-day responsibility for teams executing fundraising, operations, marketing, and finance. Jablow plays a central role in overseeing the support of clinical partners, ongoing refinement of Philanthropy operations, and the continued pivoting and growth of the organization to increase donor engagement and investment.

Jeff joined Dana-Farber after 18 years at City Year, an education nonprofit dedicated to student and school success that operates in 29 cities and 21 states. He first joined the organization in 2005 and held multiple senior leadership roles therein, including Chief Education Strategy Officer, Senior Vice President for Enterprise Improvement, and Senior Vice President for Strategy & Operations. Jeff played an important role in helping City Year navigate through critical inflection points in the organization’s growth toward a national footprint delivering sustainable impact for communities and stakeholders. He led City Year’s enterprise strategy for nearly two decades and launched its public funding approach from schools and districts while playing a lead role in securing and stewarding transformational private sector investments. He further helped to build City Year’s approach to program innovation, establishing learning communities and utilizing improvement science with school and district partners and throughout the organization. Jeff led change management among internal and external stakeholders, investors, and board members for City Year’s scaled impact strategy, thereby building staff capacity, strengthening school and student outcomes, and aligning executive and functional leaders on multi-year goals and implementation plans. He has demonstrated his ability to empower others thus giving respect to existing expertise yet being able to get the best from new and existing teams in support of greater impact. He is a leader driven by inclusion and equity and has built and led inclusive and engaged teams while advancing the organization’s vision for equity.

Prior to joining City Year, Jeff worked as a strategy consultant with Cambridge Strategic Management Group, Ernst & Young Consulting, and The Bridgespan Group. His passion for service and the nonprofit sector was further ignited during his time working with Afrika Tikkun, a community development nonprofit in South Africa. He served 3 terms on the Board of Directors for City on a Hill Charter Public Schools in Massachusetts and is a Pahara-Aspen Fellow. Jeff earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and is a Fuqua Alumni Leader of Consequence award winner. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in accounting from the University of Michigan.