2012 Fundraising Day in New York: Keynote Speaker

Andrew D. Plepler is Bank of America’s Global Corporate Social Responsibility Executive and Consumer Policy Executive.

In this role, Plepler is responsible for formulating strategy and overseeing Bank of America’s community engagement assets and activity, including the company’s philanthropic grants, community development lending and investing goals, Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) compliance, employee volunteerism programs, partnerships with nonprofit organizations, arts and culture programming, and the company’s environmental initiative. He also serves as the senior executive responsible for interfacing with consumer and community groups while representing Bank of America’s position on critical consumer issues impacting those organizations and their constituents.

As part of his responsibilities, Plepler and his team manage Bank of America’s ten-year, $1.5 trillion community development lending and investing goal; ten-year, $2 billion philanthropic investment goal; and ten-year, $20 billion environmental initiative.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Plepler served as senior vice president of Housing and Community Initiatives with the Fannie Mae Foundation. He oversaw three of the foundation’s primary grant-making departments, as well as its regional offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Pasadena and Philadelphia.

Before joining the Fannie Mae Foundation, Plepler was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Tax Division and served on Capitol Hill as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Plepler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, FL.

Plepler founded and continues to serve on the board of the Washington, DC-based Urban Alliance Foundation, a nonprofit jobs and mentoring program that works with economically disadvantaged high school students. In addition, Plepler serves on the Board of Directors for the Charlotte Country Day School, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Living Cities Inc., and the Independent Sector. Plepler, his wife and three children reside in Charlotte, NC.

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