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is a graduate of Yale College and holds a Master's Degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. After working as a planner for the City of New York and serving as Director of New Haven's Office of Downtown and Harbor Development, Jim joined HWF as a Partner in 1989.

Since joining HWF, Jim has developed a reputation as one of Connecticut's most prolific social service planning consultants. Jim has applied his passion for public interest and his wide array of experiences to promote improvements across education, workforce development, early childhood, and health care delivery systems. Jim's planning work has resulted in major shifts in social service systems, including the development of Connecticut's One Stop Career Center System, the creation of a $230 million Empowerment Zone in New Haven, and the connecting of countless community-based organizations to larger efforts. Much of Jim's work involves facilitating diverse stakeholder groups, thinking creatively, and analyzing complex data sets. Jim holds a keen interest in technological innovations and champions DataHaven, an interactive web site that provides data and indicators to support planning efforts and knowledge development.

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studied psychology and business at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire and attended graduate school at Western Michigan University to study the experimental analysis of behavior. Mark earned the Western Michigan University-wide Creative Scholar and Research Award at both the Master's and Doctoral levels, coordinated the Human and Non-human Subjects Institutional Review Board, managed three research laboratories, and served as an instructor. Prior to joining HWF in 1995, Mark began his community research and consulting career as an epidemiologist at the Yale University-affiliated APT Foundation for a community-wide substance abuse demand reduction project funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

As HWF's Managing Partner since 1997, Mark plays an integral role in business development and in shaping the firm's strategic direction. Mark's projects cover executive/board leadership development; organizational restructuring; business model innovation; program design, evaluation, and performance measurement; complex system analysis and planning, and resource development. Mark typically designs data collection protocols for HWF projects involving multi-site research. He is also a skilled grant and report-writer, and has authored numerous publications in scientific journals. Mark's experiences and skill sets allow him to work effectively across the areas of public health, workforce development, early childhood and education, social services, and philanthropy.

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is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. Harry brings a unique perspective through his training as a lawyer and an urban planner with expertise in housing and community development. Harry has parlayed his legal due diligence and fact-finding skills into a distinct approach to evaluating comprehensive neighborhood and community-wide revitalization programs.

During his more than 30 years as an HWF Partner, Harry's clients have included local and national foundations, foundation intermediaries, government agencies, and community-based organizations. He has directed studies of urban housing policy for the National Science Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Harry has conducted evaluations of supportive housing and neighborhood revitalization programs for the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts, among others. In addition to his housing and community development work, Harry has advised the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities on the design and start-up of revenue-producing service programs and monitored the performance of regional voter registration and education programs for the Ford Foundation. Harry currently teaches "Perspectives on the City" at the Yale University Political Science Department and serves on several nonprofit boards. He has published several articles about housing and city planning, and was the principal investigator and co-author of the book Housing and Local Government.

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studied cultural anthropology and took his bachelor's degree at Cornell University and received a doctoral degree from Boston University. As a Presidential Scholar at Boston University his dissertation work concentrated on the management of community-owned timber enterprises in Mexico. Matt speaks Spanish fluently and has traveled extensively in Latin America.

Prior to joining HWF as a Partner in 2008, Matt served as Director at the National Development Council (NDC), where he provided consulting services in housing and economic development finance to a diverse set of clients. His public sector client portfolio includes New York City, Washington, DC, and Stamford, Connecticut. He has also assisted several nonprofit organizations, including the Nonprofit Finance Fund, the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, and the Bread & Life Soup Kitchen. Matt is an expert in real estate finance and development, including the application of a variety of financing tools such as New Markets Tax Credits, Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits and Low Income Housing Tax Credits. His projects have ranged from the renovation of a tobacco warehouse into a boutique hotel, to the development of housing for low-income elderly in Puerto Rico, to the reinvention of a 1,000 acre square foot former chemical processing plant into a mixed used project with housing, retail and manufacturing space. Before his tenure at NDC, Matt worked for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. .

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