DURHAM, NC.- The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University announces the hiring of Gregory K. Jones, a fundraising and philanthropy professional whose career has deep roots in the arts and humanities. Throughout the 1980s Jones helped to plan, fund, and evaluate hundreds of public cultural programs while working at the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Texas Committee for the Humanities, the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. In the early 1990s, he became Director of Public Policy for the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.

Jones has been a Fellow with the Chicago Community Trust, one the largest and oldest community foundations in the United States, and Grants Administrator for Project Bread, a Boston-based hunger relief organization. He was also a program associate with the Bush Foundation, a private foundation based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that supports arts, education, environment, and social service programs throughout Minnesota and North and South Dakota.

Since the late 1990s, Jones has worked increasingly in development, starting with his appointment as Director of the Leaders in Giving Program of the United Way of Minneapolis. He has also been Director of Philanthropic Services of the National Philanthropic Trust, headquartered in Jenkintown, Philadelphia. Most recently, he was Development Director of the Bread and Roses Community Fund in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he raised funds to support grassroots activism to help bring about social change.

Jones earned a B.A. in English from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and an M.A. in Public Policy Studies from the Harris School at the University of Chicago. He is married to Terri Young, M.D., a Professor of Ophthalmology and Genetics at Duke University. They have two children, Max, 14, and Mariah, 12.

The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University is a campus and community crossroads for people interested in the creativity, and the power, of the documentary arts. CDS is home to photographers and writers, historians and filmmakers, musicians and folklorists, and many others interested in how documentary stories can change perspectives and move us to action. From international awards to award-winning books, from exhibitions of new and established artists to nationally recognized training for community youth, from fieldwork projects in the U.S. to documentary fellows abroad, from university undergraduate courses to popular summer institutes, attracting students from across the region and the nation­the Center for Documentary Studies is actively engaged in sharing documentary work with a broad, diverse audience.