Ken Grouf is the Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York division of City Year. City Year unites a diverse group of 17 to 24 year-old young people for a year of full-time, rigorous community service, leadership development, and civic engagement.
Prior to starting City Year New York, Grouf was the Director of Brand Managment at Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!, Ken was the Director of National Programs and Marketing at Do Something.
In 1993, he founded and served as the Executive Director of Students for Children, a non-profit organization that encouraged volunteerism and child advocacy on college campuses nationwide.
Ken Grouf received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
I'll give you an example of a time where we approached our first funder, Citigroup. And at Citigroup, we had a young analyst who was friends with my co-director who worked at Smith Barney and loved the idea of City Year and wanted to help her friend. And she told her manager about it, who told ano...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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