Donald T. Floyd, Jr., President and CEO, National 4-H Council
Donald T. Floyd, Jr. is president and CEO of National 4-H Council, the private sector, non-profit partner of America's largest youth organization operating in every county. 4‑H is a community of more than 6.5 million young people across America learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. 4-H also has partners in over 80 countries.
Under his leadership, National 4-H Council led 4-H in the National Conversation on Youth Development in the 21st Century and created the first national action agenda for youth policy. The Conversations engaged 50,000 youth, and adults, in 1600 communities from all 50 states and Puerto Rico, and resulted in the most comprehensive and inclusive national youth agenda ever produced.
4-H is a pioneer in the after-school arena and more than 4.2 million youth participate in 4-H Afterschool Programs. 4-H Afterschool is just one example of today’s 4-H movement, which focuses on its mission mandates of science, engineering and technology; healthy living and citizenship. In addition, National 4-H Council operates the 800-bed youth conference center in Chevy Chase, MD, and provides marketing, licensing, fundraising, curriculum and support materials for programs as well as business operations for Council’s public sector partners within the 4-H movement.
Mr. Floyd has been associated with innovative leadership of youth-serving, non-profit organizations for more than 35 years. For 17 years, he held local and national level positions, including National Executive Vice President of Junior Achievement. With Junior Achievement, he led expansion of the international program and its first venture into classroom-based programming, which today is JA’s largest program.
Currently, Don is Chair of the National Collaboration for Youth (a coalition of the top 56 youth organizations); serves as a Trustee with the America’s Promise Alliance, and co-chairs one of their three national action strategies; and serves on the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention.
Don served as a Trustee of Albright College and was Secretary of the Board, a member of the Executive Committee, and Vice Chair of their Governance Committee.
He is former Chair of the International Leaders Committee of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University. He was one of six inaugural recipients of the International Fellows in Applied Developmental Science.
He has been on numerous governing bodies in his community and church. In addition, he has written and published articles on governance and the role of youth in governance.
Don is a 1965 graduate of Reading High School, served in the US Air Force 1966-1970, and is a 1973 graduate of Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. Don and his wife, Carolyn, have five children.