About
Stuart Comstock-Gay is president and CEO of the Delaware Community Foundation, where he leads the team’s work to improve the quality of life in Delaware by empowering and growing philanthropy.
Comstock-Gay has spent his career addressing issues of philanthropy, community, democracy and civil rights. Before joining the DCF in 2016, he served as president and CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation and spent seven years in various leadership positions at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. He has also led the Democracy Program at Demos in New York, the National Voting Rights Institute in Boston, and the Maryland affiliate of the ACLU.
Comstock-Gay is an SNF Senior Fellow at the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware, served as adjunct faculty in nonprofit leadership at Marlboro College, and hosts the DCF podcast series, currently on the topic of “How to (Not) Kill Your Community.”
He is Chair of the board of Grow America, and serves on the boards of CFLeads, United Way of Delaware, Wilmington Alliance, and Rodel Foundation of Delaware. Stuart holds an MPA degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a BA in political science from Bucknell University.