Alan Leifer

Alan Leifer is a retired voting stockholder of Fidelity Investments where he managed Trend, Equity Income, Select, and Contrafund. During his 18-year tenure, Fidelity grew to be the country’s number one mutual fund manager in size and performance.

Alan’s involvement in Jewish public service and Middle East affairs spans the American Jewish renaissance, civil society, peace and democracy in the Middle East, climate change, energy security, cleantech, and endowment management. He retired from his Fidelity career before the age of forty to pursue his philanthropic passions full time.

Current and former affiliations or Board service include the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Hebrew College, the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), and the Solomon Schechter Day School-Boston.

Alan holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from The Wharton School, an MPA in Nonprofit Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is a CFA charter holder.

As founder of the Jewish Community Endowment Pool, Alan helped grow and invest over $3 billion in endowment and foundation assets from more than 150 families and entities across the United States.

In 2014, Alan and his wife Marcia launched The Leifer Family Fund to focus and extend their strategic grantmaking. The Leifer Family Fund collaborates with like-minded Jewish family foundations to support emerging enterprises, some of which can be seen here.

Marcia Leifer

Marcia has served as Vice President of the Leifer Family Fund since its founding in 2014, and is active with several Jewish organizations in Boston. She has served as Chair of the Creative Arts & Sciences Committee Chair at the Solomon Schechter Day School and as a volunteer for development teams at both Schechter and Gann Academy. She also served on the board of Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston.

Marcia is an active volunteer for both Combined Jewish Philanthropies and JDC, working with CJP’s Boston-Haifa Committee, Miriam Fund and Women’s Philanthropy as well as JDC’s GRID (Global Response, Innovative Development) program. She has traveled extensively to visit JDC operations in Israel, Cuba, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Turkey, Russia, Poland, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Croatia, Argentina, India, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Hong Kong, China and the Philippines.

Marcia and her husband Alan are the parents of four grown children and two adorable grandchildren.  Marcia is a native of Central Florida and a graduate of the University of Georgia.