Stuart Comstock-Gay

Stuart Comstock-Gay has served as President & CEO of the Delaware Community Foundation since 2016.

He has spent his career addressing issues of community, democracy and civil rights. Before joining the DCF in 2016, he served as president 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 has served as adjunct faculty in nonprofit leadership at Marlboro College and as a visiting fellow at the University of Delaware Biden School, written for numerous national, regional and local newspapers and magazines, been a regular radio commentator, and spoken before hundreds of audiences on a wide range of foundation, democracy, voting rights and civil liberties issues. He hosts the DCF-produced podcast, “Building Opportunity in Delaware.”

He currently serves on the boards of CFLeads and Grow America, as well as the United Way of Delaware, Wilmington Alliance, and Rodel Foundation of Delaware. Stuart holds an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Bucknell University.