Jeffrey Franco has over 25 years of experience in leading and managing a large-scale nonprofit, and providing strategic consulting, business development and change management for both corporations and nonprofit organizations. As CEO of Camino Consulting Group, Jeffrey has worked with local and national nonprofit CEOs to provide strategic plan support, board training and development, executive coaching, DEIJ facilitation and fundraising guidance. Outside of Camino Consulting Group, Jeffrey serves as Adjunct Professor at American University and University of Maryland where he designed and currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in nonprofit management. He also serves on four DC nonprofit boards.

Jeffrey served as Interim Executive Director and Vice President of City Year Miami after serving over 12 years as Executive Director of City Year Washington, DC. Under Jeffrey’s leadership, City Year Washington, DC tripled the size of its staff, tripled the number of schools served, and quadrupled the number of students served. Since his arrival at City Year, Franco more than tripled the organization’s fundraising capacity from $2.3 million to $8.6 million, quadrupled the number of students served, and established City Year’s first multimillion contract with the DC Public System. During this time, Jeffrey managed and led City Year’s Executive and Alumni Board and established City Year’s first Associate Board. Jeffrey has also served as Interim Executive Director of One Common Unity in Washington, DC, Youth Speaks in San Francisco and Interim Chief Program Officer at JVS, also in San Francisco.

Directly prior to joining City Year, Franco served as the Director of Global Business Development and Project Manager at Voxiva, Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting, Associate Director of Marketing and Sales at Corporate Executive Board, and Consultant at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group.

Outside of his professional work, Franco was named 2013 American University Kogod School of Business Alumni of the Year, is an alumnus of the Aspen Institute Socrates Program, is a 2016 graduate of the Co-Active Teaching Institute Leadership Program, 2010 graduate of Leadership Greater Washington, and 2011 graduate of the Leadership Sanctuary. He graduated with a B.A. from Fairfield University, Masters degree in International Affairs and M.B.A. from American University. Franco is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, enjoys traveling, has completed 5 marathons and an Ironman triathlon, walked the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain in 2013 and completed the 150 Mile Annapurna Circuit in Nepal in 2017.