Background
Greer is the son of Jewish parents who emigrated to the United States of America from the United Kingdom. He grew up in New York on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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He attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School and graduated from Vassar College in 1990.
Career
He is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ). Starting in January 2012, he will head the Nathan Cummings Foundation, an American foundation funding the social justice sector, as President and Chief Executive Officer. Greer holds position seven on 2011′s “Forward 50”, The Jewish Daily Forward′s list of the fifty most significant Jews in the United States. Back in the United States after two years, he continued his activities as a labor and community organizer and social change leader, working for unions in South Carolina, the nonprofit organizing group Jobs with Justice in Washington, District of Columbia and New York, and founded the volunteer group Jews United for Justice in Washington, District of Columbia In April 2005, Greer became President and Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ).
He transformed the organization from a relatively small private charitable foundation into an organization with a $6.5 million budget, merging it with several other organizations.
He expanded the foundation into more active areas such as leadership training and service learning. Greer gained national prominence in the United States. during JFSJ’s high-profile campaign against Glenn Beck, denouncing his allegedly anti-Semitic rhetoric and his invocations of the Holocaust on Fox News.
The campaign ended with Beck’s leaving Fox News. In August 2011, the Nathan Cummings Foundation announced that it has selected Greer as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. He will assume his post on January 1, 2012.
