Marc Breslaw
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) has hired Marc Breslaw to serve as executive director of the NRECA International Foundation, the association announced today.

Breslaw most recently worked as director of external relations for Global Rights, a human rights advocacy organization active in Afghanistan, West and East Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. Earlier, he served as executive director of the U.S. Association for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the American organization set up to educate the American public and raise funds for the U.N. Refugee Agency.

He also served as chief operating officer for the New Israel Fund, a human rights and social justice organization that builds and trains civil society organizations in Israel, and was deputy director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, responsible for completing the museum’s capital campaign and creating an annual fund, special exhibition funding, corporate relations, legacy giving and the start of an endowment fund.

Breslaw received a bachelor of arts in history and political science from the State University of New York in Buffalo, a master of science in journalism from Northwestern University, and a master of business administration from Johns Hopkins University.

He serves on the board of the Greater Washington chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is the national service organization that represents the nation’s more than 900 private, not-for-profit, consumer-owned electric cooperatives, which provide service to 42 million people in 47 states. The group’s NRECA International program has been working in developing countries since 1962, helping provide electricity to more than 110 million people in 42 countries.

▪ NRECA International