John Foster-Bey
John Foster-Bey is currently the Senior Advisor
for Research and Policy Development at the Corporation for National
and Community Services in Washington, DC. Prior to coming to the
Corporation John was a Senior Associate and Director of the Program
for Regional Economic Opportunity at the Washington DC based Urban
Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Center. The
Program focuses on research that examines the factors that improve
low-skilled, low-income individuals and communities access to employment
and economic opportunity within local regional economies. Since joining
the Urban Institute, John has authored several studies on employment
access and workforce training opportunities for low-skilled, low-income
individuals. In addition, he has also completed studies on the role
of targeting industries as a welfare-to-work strategy, spatial mismatch
and access to employment for low-skilled workers, barriers to accessing
living wage employment, and factors related to career mobility for
low-wage workers.
Before coming to the Urban Institute, John spent 12 years in philanthropy,
where he was responsible for leading grant-making programs in economic
and workforce development, community development, and youth development.
During his career in philanthropy John served as Vice President of
Programs for the Northwest Area Foundation in St. Paul, MN; Associate
Director of the MacArthur Foundation's Community Initiatives Program;
and as a Program Officer in the Ford Foundation's Urban Poverty Program
and Office of Program Related Investments. Prior to entering philanthropy,
John spent 10 years working in the areas of corporate finance, local
government and non-profit youth programs. John has an undergraduate
degree in History, a graduate degree in public administration, and
a MBA from the Yale School of Management.
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