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New Interim Executive Director 

Jeff Hood named Interim Executive Director of the National Association of Police Athletic/Activities Leagues, Inc.

                                                 

 
The National Association of Police Athletic/Activities Leagues Board of Directors is please to announce that Jeff Hood has been appointed as the Interim Executive Director of National PAL. With the departure of the past Executive Director (announced in the Spring Newsletter), the National PAL Board decided that it would be in the best interest of the organization to immediately appoint an Interim Executive Director to continue to build on the success that we have had over the past year.  

"We are grateful that the National PAL's interim executive director comes from within; he brings talent and experience, as well as continuity; we appreciate his hard work ethic, professionalism and integrity" Barbara Bonilla, National PAL's board president, said. "We know Jeff Hood to be strategic and proactive and are confident the National PAL's services and programs will continue to be a tremendous success under his leadership."

The National PAL Board Of  Directors will be conducting a nationwide Executive Director search in the upcoming months. Jeff Hood has resigned from the National PAL Board of the Directors and the Board President will be making appointments to fill the vacancies. An announcement will be released when those appointments are finalized.   

The National PAL Board Of Directors would like to thank all of you for your support and feedback during this time.   We plan to continue to work hard as a board to move the National Association of Police Athletic/Activities Leagues, Inc. forward on a national level while also securing more benefits and resources for our chapter members. 

Read more about Jeff Hood

Formerly serving as the executive director for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Activities League (PAL), Jeff Hood has been involved with several youth related causes for more than 30 years. Prior to joining the Police Activities League in March 2009, Jeff was the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Athletes United for Youth (formally Dell Curry Charity for Youth) since its inception in 1998.
 
Before co-founding the Athletes United for Youth organization, Jeff was the Director of Adolescent Services at the McLeod Addictive Disease Center for approximately nine years. During this time, Jeff was instrumental in youth program development where he co-wrote a program for a youth wilderness camp, as well as, programs associated with inpatient and outpatient substance abuse services.
 
In 2010, in an effort to honor and pay tribute to his mother, Doris "Hoodie" Hood, who is a retired educator with the NYC Board of Education and a devoted community youth advocate, Jeff founded the Hoodie's House of Hope for Youth Foundation, whose mission is in aiding and addressing Homelessness, Hunger, Education, Leadership Development, Mentoring and out of school time programs.  Hoodie's House, in going global, now operates a well established K-7th grade school in Thomas-Elie, Haiti, currently serving 110 youth.
 
Throughout his experience, Jeff is most effective planning, implementing and engaging with youth and programs that are designed to help youth make right decisions that will excel their future. Most of the programs utilized by Athletes United for Youth, and most currently the Police Activities League and Hoodie's House of Hope for Youth were either designed or implemented by Jeff.
 
Jeff also specializes in event planning, fundraising and grant writing. He is credited with having initiated several Celebrity Charity Golf Classics, Concerts, Gala's, Youth Clinics and the nationally recognized Hoodie's House National HS Hoop's Classic. Through spectator attendance, sponsorship and financial success, each of these charitable fundraising events have benefited youth housed within underserved Charlotte-Mecklenburg communities.
 
Jeff, a native of Queens, NY is a graduate of North Carolina Wesleyan College where he received a BA Degree. In September 2007, Jeff was inducted into the N.C. Wesleyan Sports Hall of Fame after having completed a stellar basketball career.  Jeff is married to Gloria Sledge Hood and together  have a wonderful daughter named Maya.
 
As a steward of the community, Jeff actively participates on several local and national community boards and organizations, including the KLM, Jr Foundation Board Member and the Appalachian State University Parent/Family Board of Directors.

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