Renee Harvey is in her 24th season with the Cleveland Browns and currently serves as Vice President, Community Impact and Foundation, a role she assumed during the 2025 season. She oversees the Cleveland Browns Foundation and Community Relations department, aligning the organization's commitment to education, youth football, equitable opportunity and the critical community components of the team's new stadium efforts.
Previously named Vice President and Executive Director of the Cleveland Browns Foundation in 2013, Harvey continues to lead its day-to-day operations and long-term strategy and its commitment to the Stay in the Game! Attendance Network, a statewide initiative launched in 2019 in partnership with the Ohio Department of Education and Harvard's Proving Ground, focused on reducing chronic absenteeism across Ohio.
Through collaborative efforts, the Network has grown to support over 160 districts and nearly 500,000 students in the 2024–25 school year, with Battelle now serving as the Network's operational backbone. For two consecutive years, districts participating in the Network have outpaced the rest of the state in reducing chronic absenteeism, demonstrating the power of data-driven, cross-sector collaboration.
A member of the Browns' senior leadership team, Harvey helped develop and launch Browns Give Back in 2017, the club's philanthropic platform dedicated to education, youth football, and volunteerism. She also contributed to efforts bridging the digital divide during the COVID-19 pandemic through targeted investments in technology access for students in under served districts.
Harvey's impact spans nearly every facet of the Browns' community work. Since joining the organization in 2002, she has advanced the club's philanthropic reach locally and nationally, led strategic transformations of the Foundation, and has directed numerous programs that connect players and staff to meaningful community engagement in Northeast Ohio.
Before joining the Browns, Harvey led community outreach for the NHL's Anaheim Ducks and managed the Ducks Care Foundation, which distributed over $1 million annually in grants and launched major fundraising efforts like Dux in Tux.
She has served on several boards, including University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Foundation, the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross. She is currently a member of the Philanthropy Ohio Education Advisory Committee, United Way of Greater Cleveland's Public Policy Subcommittee and the CL3 Alliance—a social impact collaboration among the Browns, Cavaliers, and Guardians.
A Denver native, Harvey holds a B.A. in Education from Idaho State University and an M.A. in Sports Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. She lives in Brunswick with her husband, Neal, and their three sons.
