Lewis M. Feldstein, president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation since 1986, has announced plans to step down from the post in June 2010.

Lewis M. Feldstein, president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation since 1986, has announced plans to step down from the post in June 2010. The foundation's board of directors appointed a search committee to find his successor. Under Feldstein's leadership, the foundation became the largest funder of nonprofit organizations in northern New England, with assets growing from $25 million in 1986 to $375 million in 2008. He was named last year by Nonprofit Times as one of America's 50 top nonprofit leaders.

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