Carsey Institute Awards Fellowships To 24 New England Non-Profit Leaders
By Amy Sterndale, The Carsey Institute
November 28, 2007
Twenty-four leading practitioners working to improve affordable housing
and smart growth in communities in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire have
been awarded Policy Leadership Fellowships by the Carsey Institute at UNH.
The fellows will work together to strengthen the collective capacity of northern
New England to advance policies that help support families and communities
in the region. The fellowship includes an award of $1,000 to support the
ongoing work of these outstanding nonprofit leaders.
“Good public policy is critical to our foundation’s mission
to improve the health of the people of New Hampshire,” said Mary Vallier-Kaplan,
vice president and chief operating officer at the Endowment for Health, a
Concord-based non-profit. “The work of the Carsey Institute to support
the strategic capacity of regional non-profit leaders is a great asset for
New Hampshire. We are pleased to join with other foundations from across
New England to support this effort.”
The 2007 Carsey Policy Leadership Fellows include:
Maine:
Ethan Boxer-Macomber, development officer, Avesta Housing
Erin Cooperrider, development director, Community Housing of Maine
Maggie Drummond, policy director, GrowSmart Maine
Michael Finnegan, senior loan and investment officer, Coastal Enterprises,
Inc.
William Floyd, executive director, Genesis Community Loan Fund
Donald Gean, executive director, York County Shelter Programs, Inc.
Chris LaRoche, housing development coordinator, York County Community Action
Corporation
Nicole Witherbee, federal budget analyst, Maine Center for Economic Policy
Vermont:
Deb Brighton, Ad Hoc Associates
Noelle MacKay, executive director, Vermont Forum on Sprawl
Rita Markley, executive director, Committee on Temporary Shelter
Polly Nichol, director of housing programs, Vermont Housing and Conservation
Board
Kenn Sassorossi, vice president of asset management & partner relations,
Housing Vermont
Connie Snow, executive director, Windham Housing Trust
Brenda Torpy, chief executive director, Champlain Housing Trust
Amy Wright, director of development, Cathedral Square Corporation
New Hampshire:
Will Abbott, vice president for policy & land management, Society for
the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Alice Chamberlin, attorney
Dean Christon, executive director, New Hampshire Housing and Finance Authority
Anne Duncan Cooley, executive director, Upper Valley Housing Coalition
Julie Eades, president, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
David Frydman, legal counsel, New Hampshire House of Representatives
Ignatius MacLellan
Jeffrey Taylor, president, Jeffrey H. Taylor and Associates, Inc.
Keith Thibault, development director, Southwestern Community Services, Inc.
The program will be launched at a two-and-a-half day residential seminar
in Portsmouth, which will open on Dec. 3 with a presentation by Barry Bluestone,
director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.
Bluestone will speak about national and New England challenges, opportunities,
and policy priorities at the nexus of housing and smart growth. His presentation
is open to the public on an advance registration basis. To register, contact
the Carsey Institute at amy.sterndale@unh.edu.
“Affordable housing and smart growth policies are critical issues
in northern New England,” said Carsey Institute Director Mil Duncan. “Citizens
and leaders across the region are wrestling with both how to preserve the
landscapes we love and how to make it possible for low and moderate income
families to live in places where housing costs are rising dramatically. These
wonderful 24 leaders selected as the Policy Leadership Fellows in this second
year of our initiative are making real strides on these tough issues. The
Carsey Institute looks forward to working with them and their colleagues
over the next year to widen the dialogue and expand our tool box of solutions
for both housing equity and conservation.”
This work will be led by Andrea Colnes, director of Carsey’s Policy
Leadership Initiative. The initiative is supported by the Jane’s Trust,
with additional support for participants from the Maine Community Foundation,
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and the Vermont Community Foundation.
The Carsey Institute conducts research and analysis on the challenges facing
families and communities in New Hampshire, New England, and the nation. The
Carsey Institute sponsors independent, interdisciplinary research that documents
trends and conditions affecting families and communities, providing valuable
information and analysis to policymakers, practitioners, the media, and the
general public. Through this work, the Carsey Institute contributes to public
dialogue on policies that encourage social mobility and sustain healthy,
equitable communities.
The Carsey Institute was established in May 2002 with a generous gift from
UNH alumna and noted television producer Marcy Carsey.
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