The Wexner Foundation
Organization / Private foundation
Fact box:
- Founded: 1983
- Founders: Leslie H. Wexner, Abigail Wexner
- HQ: New Albany, OH
The Wexner Foundation operates as a major US Jewish foundation focused on Jewish leadership development. The foundation's signature programs include the Wexner Heritage Program (Jewish lay-leadership education), the Wexner Graduate Fellowship (Jewish professional leadership development), and the Wexner Israel Fellowship (mid-career Israeli public-sector leadership program at Harvard Kennedy School).
The foundation's leadership-development institutional commitment has produced a substantial alumni network operating across US Jewish institutional, Israeli public-sector, and broader policy-leadership positions.
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