Jeff Katz

Jeff Katz

42 Prentiss Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 | (617) 642-0564 | Jeff@jeffkatz.org
Works in: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont

Last updated:
Wednesday, Aug 06, 2025

I provide a wide range of services including executive coaching, executive search, and serving as an interim Executive Director. My work is informed by decades of nonprofit leadership and experience as a national leader in the area of adoption and foster care. I have served as both a long-term Executive Director (10 years at Adoption RI ands 4 years at CODE Crisis Hotline) and as an interim Executive Director (13 times).

Areas of Expertise:

Board assessment, structure, training, performance

Media / public relations

Organizational evaluation, Program evaluation

Interim directorship, Succession / transition planning, Executive search

Advocacy / lobbying, Public policy development and strategy

Managing change, Organizational assessments, Organizational development

Deep expertise in these issue areas: Child Abuse and Neglect, Foundations / Grantmakers, Homelessness, Social Services / Human Services

Past Clients:

  • Organization: Safe Passage
    Name: Susan Egmont
    Description of services provided: Led Executive Director search for organization serving children whose families scavenge at the Guatemala city garbage dump. Now serve on the Board.
    Year services provided: 2013-2023
    Contact Info: (781) 710-3447 | segmont@egmontassociates.com
  • Organization: South Park Inn
    Name: Dave Cass
    Description of services provided: Interim Executive Director for homeless shelter
    Year services provided: 2018-2019
    Contact Info: (860) 218-8048 | Davidcass7@gmail.com

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