Marvin I. Schotland (photo courtesy of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles)

The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles’ longtime president and CEO Marvin I. Schotland has announced he will step down at the end of 2022.

One of the region’s longest-tenured nonprofit executives, Schotland has presided over a period of sustained growth and transformation since assuming his position in 1989. Under his leadership, the foundation’s total charitable assets have grown from $90 million to approximately $1.5 billion. In the past dozen years, its grantmaking to Jewish and general community causes and programs locally, across the nation and in Israel has totaled approximately $1 billion. The Jewish Community Foundation ranks among Los Angeles’ 10 largest foundations and is one of the largest Jewish community foundations in the U.S. as measured by assets.

The foundation will form a committee of its board of trustees to lead a national search for prospective candidates to succeed Schotland.

“After 33 years of service to the community, I have decided to step down as president and CEO of the foundation at the end of 2022,” Schotland said. “When I accepted this position in 1989, it never occurred to me that this would become the professional home where I’d reside for nearly half of the foundation’s existence. I am enormously proud of the tremendous growth over the past three decades and the impact of foundation grantmaking. But this has been a team effort in every regard. It is enabled by the tireless work of our management team and staff, the dedication of our lay leadership, the support of our network of professional advisors and the passion of our grantees. Of course, none of the foundation’s success would be possible without the generosity of our donors who are united in their commitment to tikkun olam (repairing the world).”

Established in 1954, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles manages charitable assets of $1.5 billion entrusted to it by over 1,300 families.

“Marvin Schotland’s stewardship has been pivotal in building the institution into a pillar of strength and permanence for the benefit of our communities, as well as propelling it to preeminence as a funder of vital, high-impact causes and programs,” Foundation Board Chair Evan Schlessinger said. “On his watch, the foundation has achieved a national reputation for not only the depth and breadth of its grantmaking, but as a paradigm for philanthropic innovation that is now looked to and leveraged by other community foundations and funders.”

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