Martin Greenberg

ORT America is the American branch of World ORT, an international network of schools and vocational training programs for both Jews and non-Jews. ORT America operates technical colleges in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and runs a resource center for Jewish educators in Michigan. ORT America also supports the work of World ORT, which operates in more than 60 countries and serves over 200,000 students each year.

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Martin Greenberg is the executive director of ORT America. He is known for bringing transformative change to nonprofits, and for a history of success reenergizing Jewish organizations. Having grown up in a city housing project in the Bronx, he is particularly sensitive to the work ORT does to educate and empower those who are trying to raise themselves to a better life. He has a master’s degree in social work from Yeshiva University and has worked in many different areas of the not-for-profit world, as a family therapist, running a center for disabled adults and fundraising for the Anti-Defamation League in New York.