Berkley Center

Since 2001, Patrick Reese has been the manager of administration and planning for humanitarian services with Latter-day Saint Charities (LDSC). LDSC is the official humanitarian service agency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and it supports more than 500 private voluntary organizations, community agencies, and churches in providing education, job training, and other development services. Reese began his career with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the mid-1970s as an instructor in business management at Brigham Young University and over the years has worked for the LDS church in its welfare services department, coordinated the U.S. Northern Plains region from 1985 to 1986, and managed a network of over 100 LDS-supported food banks—the Bishops' Storehouses—among other positions.