Jeff Feingold

Jeff Feingold has spent most of his last 35 years focused on his family, professional and philanthropic pursuits. After receiving his B.A. from Brown University in 1992 and working at Morgan Stanley as a Financial Analyst after college, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He then worked full-time at Fidelity Investments from 1997 to 2019 as an Analyst, Co-Director of Research and Portfolio Manager in the Equity Division including running the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 2011 to 2019. He has continued to work part-time at Fidelity since 2020 with their Early Career team mentoring and coaching recent college and business school graduates.

For over 35 years, philanthropy and community service have been integral to Jeff’s professional and personal life. His efforts include volunteering at a camp for children with cancer called Camp Happy Times, where he met his wife and fellow counselor, Loren, in 1994. He has taught classes to inner-city youth in Boston, covering topics like “paying it forward”, kindness and journalism. Additionally, over the years he led hundreds of colleagues at Fidelity Investments and friends in various volunteer initiatives, from renovating inner-city schools, serving holiday meals and organizing drives for basic necessities.

In 2011 he founded Hope & Comfort out of his garage in Weston, MA to help those in need and to teach his young children at the time the importance of giving back to the community and to ensure that all people have access to basic and essential personal hygiene product like soap and toothpaste to stay healthy and confident. In 2021 Jeff was recognized as a “CNN Hero” for his work with Hope & Comfort. He was also honored as a Daily Point of Light for his ongoing commitment to volunteerism and community impact. In 2024, Hope & Comfort distributed more than 5 million products to hundreds of thousands of children and adults in Massachusetts through a distribution network of more than 500 charitable organizations and has become one of the largest nonprofits solely focused on distributing these items in New England and the country. He remains active on Hope & Comfort’s Board.

Most recently, after more than 18 months of extensive research with experts in and out of MA, driven by his deep passion for collaboration, Jeff and his co-founders are launching The Massachusetts Nonprofit Collaboration Fund (“Masscollab”), a collaborative funding initiative, to provide advice and grants to encourage sustained and strategic collaborations such as joint programming, ventures, co-locations, shared back offices, mergers and more between 2 or more nonprofits in MA to drive more impact and sustainability across the sector.

Jeff and his wife, Loren, live in Weston, MA with their two children and Australian Labradoodle, Luna.