Loren Harris

Loren Harris is the Vice President of Programs at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York, USA. His role is to support the development of integrated program strategies, and manage a team of program directors and officers to support NCF’s efforts to address inequality and climate change. Prior to this role, until April 2016, Loren was the director of Family Economic Security at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. Until 2014, Loren was the founder and CEO of KIREN Legacy Enterprises, a social enterprise firm in Englewood, New Jersey. In that position he developed national and regional projects aimed at improving the impact of philanthropic initiatives, including those focused on the well-being and self-sufficiency of men and boys of color in urban communities. Prior to that, Loren was a program officer at the Ford Foundation in New York, where his portfolio included projects in adolescent reproductive health and youth engagement. He also served as an associate program officer for the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan and as director of youth employment programs at the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center in New York. Loren has served as an expert panelist for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and also as a board member for The Brotherhood/Sister Sol and the Levitt Foundation in New York. He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, New Jersey, with an emphasis on nonprofit management and administration.