NGLTF’s Matt Foreman
 

SAN FRANCISCO—The executive director of one of the nation’s leading gay rights groups has accepted a new job with a philanthropic foundation in San Francisco.

Matt Foreman has been at the helm of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for five years. In April, he plans to start working for the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund as head of the foundation’s gay and lesbian program.

At NGLTF, Foreman has been a prominent advocate for gay men, lesbians and transgender people in the U.S. on such issues as marriage and military service.

The Haas Fund awarded more than $19 million worth of grants to gay and lesbian non-profits over the last five years.

NGLTF officials said the group would undertake a national search for Foreman’s successor.