Chair of the Board, Co-Founder
Co-Founder Alliance For Good

Wei Zheng

Wei Zheng is a co-founder and Director of Alliance For Good, and an Asia Pacific Leader of Obama Foundation. He has over 10 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising and philanthropic services. He is recognized as a pioneer in this field in China. Wei is a Professional Fellow with the U.S. Department of State for placement with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the philanthropic advisory office for the Rockefeller family offices and other major philanthropic organizations in the United States. As a trainer and lecturer, he has trained a network of over 3,000 Chinese NGOs on fundraising and NGO-Business partnerships in China. Previously, he worked as a National Officer for UNICEF in China and supported leading brands on their social responsibility and cause-related marketing programs. Prior to that, he worked as the Grant Specialist for Plan International’s offices in Toronto, Canada, and in Xi’an and Beijing, China. Wei Zheng is an Executive Scholar in Non-Profit Management with Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and an MBA/MPA double degree holder from National University of Singapore.

Executive Director, Board Member

Gregory P. Cohen

Gregory Cohen brings 40 years of nonprofit management experience to Philanthropy Leaders, which is the 12th nonprofit he has helped to create. In 2018, Greg traveled to China to speak on American nonprofit boards as a guest of the government of Shenzhen at their annual Asian NGO conference and at an ASEAN conference in Nanning. He has strengthened local and global organizations by building organizational capacity through fundraising training, engaging boards, elevating public awareness, and aligning mission with program outcomes, particularly for 13 years, as Associate Director at Cause Effective.  He was the founder of Comprehensive Youth Development (CYD), a nonprofit associated with Manhattan Comprehensive Night & Day High School. CYD supports to 800 students a year, using over 200 volunteers. His work at CYD was the focus of a front page story in the New York Times and a special edition of PBS' NOW With Bill Moyers.

Previously, Greg ran the housing development program at the New York Urban Coalition for 13 years, where he created over 270 units of  housing financed by over $27 million.  These projects included permanent housing for survivors of domestic violence and CATCH a nonprofit which converts foreclosed apartments into tenant cooperatives.

Greg is a certified trainer in nonprofit ethics by the Institute for Global Ethics.  He also advised the Institute on their plan to expand to schools nationwide.   He has been a Guest Instructor on "Fundraising For New Nonprofit Ventures" at NYU’s Wagner School and the New School since 2000.  He served on the board of Nonprofit New York (NPCC) for 20 years and was a participant in Coro's Leadership NY II. He holds a BA from Union College. He lives with his wife and, to his delight, close to two adult daughters in Brooklyn.

board Member

Tamara M. Morgan

Tamara Morgan joins the Philanthropy Leadership board as an artist, past art therapist, co-host of an online television show, and as co-chair of a peer-to-peer mentoring group for adults living with disabilities. She currently works to encourage communities to embrace diversity and assistive technology through her work at a local 501c3 in NYC. 

As a therapist, she worked for several years in the inner city supporting underserved and overlooked children, adolescents, and their families to find healing through the creative arts. Encouraging them to embrace the tools of strength and resilience they have within. 

Through her art, she explores the power of diverse bodies, love, connections, and achievement. As the previous co-host of Disabilities Redefined she unshaped the constructs of ableism. You can learn more about Tamara in publications in the New York Times, Ask a New Yorker.com, Disabilities Redefined, Yoocan Fridays with Tamara, AIGA Advocacy, and Positive Exposure.

Board Member

Natan Last

Natan Last works in humanitarian immigration policy and advocacy. He holds a master's degree from Columbia in public policy, and has worked for the International Rescue Committee, the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration, and other NGOs. He also writes crossword puzzles for The New Yorker and The New York Times and is at work on a nonfiction book about the world of crosswords. 

Project Consultant

Michael Rotondi

Michael Rotondi has thirty years’ experience as multidisciplinary strategist and technologist for startup and mature businesses; his work has been implemented on six continents. A founding member of five companies and strategic planner for scores of others, his expertise includes strategic planning, enterprise modeling, the design of management reporting systems, and the creation of marketing and growth strategies.   One of the companies he co-founded, a management consultancy, became the strategic brain trust for MetLife’s CEO and Board and was later acquired by that firm.  Michael’s clients over the years have included leading Fortune 100 institutions, a number of legendary Wall Street executives, and Dr. Stephen Hawking.