The National Center for Civic Innovation is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by the Board of Directors of the Fund for the City of New York (FCNY) in 2002. Its purpose is to facilitate the ability of other cities and communities throughout the United States to adapt FCNY's approach, applications and expertise in improving quality of life and the performance of government and nonprofit organizations. Since 1968, when FCNY was founded, cities and states and community-based organizations have approached FCNY for assistance in helping them adopt and adapt many of FCNY's initiatives, most of which were begun in New York City. The work of the National Center for Civic Innovation includes initiatives that spring from work of FCNY that are applicable elsewhere as well as new initiatives that can be tested and operated throughout the country. Fund for the City of New York Staff Contact National Center for Civic Innovation Center on Government Performance International Institute for Community Solutions Board of Directors

Michael Arad (Chair), Partner, Handel Architects LLP; Designer, World Trade Center Memorial. Georgia Boothe, Executive Vice President, Children's Aid; former Executive Director, Pathways to Housing NY. Dana Buchman (Secretary), Fashion Designer; Chair, Promise Project; Author of "A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities;" Member of the Council of Fashion Designers America. Ester Fuchs (Vice Chair), Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, and Director, Urban and Social Policy Program, Columbia University; former Special Advisor on Governance and Strategic Planning to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Linda Lausell Bryant, Master Teacher; Clinical Associate Professor; Katherine and Howard Aibel Executive-in Residence; former Executive Director, Inwood House; former Associate Commissioner, Office of Youth Development at the New York City Administration for Children's Services. Lisette Nieves, President, Fund for the City of New York; Clinical Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, New York University; Former Belle Zeller Distinguished Visiting Professor in Public Policy, City University of New York (CUNY); Executive Director, Year Up NYC; Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College; former Chief of Staff, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development; Director of Special Projects for The After School Corporation (TASC). David Steinberger, President and CEO of Arcadia Publishing; Chairman of the National Book Foundation; Former President and CEO, Perseus Books Group; former President, Adult Trade Group and Corporate Strategy and International at HarperCollins; Management Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton and NYC Deputy Transportation Commissioner. Fund for the City of New York Staff Contact National Center for Civic Innovation International Institute for Community Solutions Board of Directors