Jeffrey serves as president and chief executive officer of the National Partnership for Community Leadership (NPCL). Since 1997, Jeffrey and NPCL have convened an annual international fatherhood conference that attracts several thousand community-based and family practitioners around the world. Also under Jeffrey’s leadership, the NPCL managed the National Youth Development Practitioners Institute on behalf of the US Department of Labor, the Ford Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
Jeffrey has played in integral role in the planning and implementation of two of the nation’s largest social welfare research projects involving low-income men, the Partners for Fragile Families Site Demonstration and the Fathers at Work Demonstration. These projects have served more than 6,000 men.