David Radcliffe Email & Phone Number

Led by noted economist Dr. Darrick Hamilton, The Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy advances research to understand structural inequalities and works to identify and implement groundbreaking ways to promote equity. David's work includes support of the 'Baby Bonds' wealth building initiative in CT and with other community leaders around the country seeking to promote practical solutions that close the wealth gap, particularly for communities of color.

Responsible for facilitating, designing, developing, and implementing integrated policy proposals to support and enhance the work of the Treasurer’s office, including leadership of the first-in-the-country 'Baby Bonds' wealth building intiative.

Connecticut

Led the first-ever formal collaboration between four StriveTogether-affiliated collective impact organizations in Connecticut (Bridgeport, Norwalk, Stamford, and Waterbury) — to co-design and advocate with resident and community leaders for a policy agenda aimed at improving racial equity and school and life outcomes for children and families.

Boston & Ct

David was Director of the Working Cities Challenge CT (WCC), a project of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The WCC is a multi-state grant competition that inspires and supports collaboration of residents and leaders from philanthropy, the nonprofit, public, and private sectors to advance strategies that improve the economic well-being of those with lower incomes, including communities of color.

Meriden, Ct

BNG provides a wide-range of supports to help revitalize schools and neighborhoods and solve the challenging public policy and budget issues of our times through strategic thinking, resource development, leadership development, nonprofit management and community organizing / engagement. BNG supports are built on over 20 years of real-world, practical experiences and successes. Clients have included the Coalition for New Britain's Youth, Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC in Hartford), Hartford Areas Rally Together, Beat the Street Community Center (Meriden), Literacy Volunteers of Central CT, Audubon CT, the City of Meriden, and the precursor to the Vermont Interfaith Action project.

• Led state-wide effort to create a public/private annually renewing $500,000 ‘Parent Trust Fund’ to support parent leadership training in more than a dozen Connecticut towns.• Co-founded CT Parent Power, a statewide parent organization dedicated to organizing Connecticut parents around key public policy and budget issues.• Led successful community-wide collaborative effort to secure a fully funded budget for Meriden Public Schools (multiple years).• Won a hard-fought campaign to expand a school-based breakfast program to all eight of Meriden’s elementary schools.• Led a team of Meriden parent and community leaders to successfully expand full-day kindergarten for an additional 200 children, featuring a $7 million new school annex to open in 2012.• Engaged a team of parent and community leaders, philanthropy, educators, local/state/federal elected officials and service providers to develop a comprehensive plan for young children (‘Blueprint’) and made significant progress in implementing strategies to help children and their families succeed, including the ‘Meriden Family Zone’ project. • In 2011, led Meriden’s Family Zone to become one of 15 communities nationally awarded a U.S. Department of Education ‘Promise Neighborhood’ planning grant ($465,000). • Facilitated leadership training for more than 200 parents, many of whom now practice democracy skills with service on nonprofit boards, public commissions and elected positions (several graduates serve on the local Board of Education, City Council and State legislature).

Supervised, hired, and trained paid employees. Recruited and trained college interns. Assisted community organizing staff with self-evaluation, strategic planning, and personal development. Provided support and development of a diverse, 25-member Board of Directors.Identified, recruited and trained volunteer leadership.Provided training on topics including negotiation, power, self-interest, meeting facilitation, media relations, action, planning and implementation. Built larger groups of 100s, and used that power for planning and acting on improving neighborhood life, including: · Revitalization of public housing: led staff on collaborative efforts that won $55 million to revitalize 1,400 units of deteriorated low-income public housing. · Public safety: addressed quality of life issues, ranging from barking dogs to gang violence. · Park improvements: led group in effort to secure $500,000 for improvements to Rocky Ridge Park. · School physical improvements: led several successful campaigns securing more than $200 million for numerous improvements to local public schools. · Moderation of local property taxes: fought for and won several key local policy directives resulting in significant taxsavings for Hartford homeowners. · HART Annual Congress: provided leadership to Board and staff on creating annual meetings, involving more than 500 neighborhood residents at each event.Resource development. Secured grant funds from a variety of private and public sources, totaling more than $1,000,000. One new grant led to the creation of the `Mi Casa' family service center, now a non-profit effort providing positive alternatives to Hispanic youth and their families.

B.S, Consumer Economics/Marketing

Masters; Graduate Certificate, Public Administration; Nonprofit Management