Jeff Malachowsky
A veteran of more than 20 years with nonprofit and public interest organizations, Jeff Malachowsky joins Oregon Voice after 7 years working as a consultant to foundations and grassroots programs. During this period he worked with a variety of clients, including the Funders' Committee for Civic Participation, the Piper Fund, Brainerd Foundation, Wellspring Advisors LLC, and the Proteus Fund, and worked on a variety of projects, including research and evaluation in campaign finance reform, site visits and assessments of public interest coalitions and campaigns, national coordination of ballot measure fundraising, and exploration and development of voter engagement/citizen participation initiatives.
Prior to embarking on his consulting career, Jeff was a founder and co-director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, which is dedicated to non-partisan, objective documentation and research on campaign finance at the state level. He was the founding organizer of the State Strategies Fund, a national collaborative of funders and public interest leaders dedicated to exploring and supporting new forms of state-level organizing for long-term policy change, and founded the Western States Center, serving as its Executive Director for eight years.
Jeff attended the University of Michigan and Bunker Hill Community College.
He lives in Portland with his wife, Cynthia Guyer, founding director of the Portland Schools Foundation, and has a son and daughter. He currently serves on a variety of boards, including the Oregon Bus Project, the Penney Family Fund and the National Institute on Money in State Politics.
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