Johnathan M. Holifield Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, VA, US

Forward Impact is a for-benefit advisory firm and investment fund working with philanthropist, impact investors, and policy-makers striving to invest in place-based strategies to address systemic economic inequities. Our mission is to improve systemic economic inequities in communities and create generational wealth building opportunities for currently.

I offer a response to the query: How can the United States sustain economic growth, job creation and wealth generation well into the 21st century? In my new book, The Future Economy and Inclusive Competitiveness® (ScaleUp Partners 2017), I present a powerful vision for a multi-racial, multicultural America to incorporate a new inclusive economic strategy.

Fresno, CA, US

Bitwise Industries creates a bridge between underestimated people from marginalized communities and stories of systemic poverty to skills and resources necessary to access opportunities in the tech industry. By leveraging public-private partnerships, Bitwise provides paid apprenticeships to students to learn tech skills, connects them to meaningful tech.

Washington, DC, US

Provided policy advice to the President of the United States, Secretary of Education, White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC), National Security Council (NSC), President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs (PBA), Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Washington, DC, US

POTUS appointee to Senior Executive Service, served as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Initiative). Provided actionable imagination, energy and strategic and executional leadership to completely reconstruct the Initiative, transforming it into a consequential influencer and actor throughout.

• Nationally networked and regionally focused social enterprise to advance Inclusive Competitiveness through STEM education achievement, high-growth entrepreneurship and private capital formation and investment.Developed.
• Co-hosted with major university the nation’s first summit on African American angel investing, entrepreneurship and STEM education achievement.
• Advisor and content contributor to the first Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) conference on innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Leading contributor to the Strengthening Technology Transfer Capacity of HBCU Initiative, proposing new solutions to bolster HBCU research, technology transfer, and commercialization.
• Co-hosted with leading bioscience venture development organization the nation’s first conference and workshop on African and Latino American biomedical entrepreneurship.
• Introduced inclusive regional innovation cluster and ecosystem concepts in five U.S. urban centers and advised the higher-education representative to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Innovation Advisory Board on the.

The Foundation established the Aces Research Network as a collaborative, applied research hub of selected scholars and practitioners.This team brings fresh perspectives and experiences from the four sectors that have the greatest impact on working learners:■ education (from kindergarten through postsecondary)■ economics■ business and industry■ technology.

Cleveland, OH, US

• Not-for-profit, technology-based economic development organization serving 21 counties in Northeast Ohio. Selected to improve performance of diverse populations in critical areas of Northeast Ohio’s economic.
• Conducted nation’s first regional assessment of minority competitiveness in innovation clusters.
• First innovation ecosystem in the U.S. to adopt Inclusive Competitiveness strategies and practices.
• Leading efforts to develop nation’s first fully inclusive regional innovation ecosystem, in partnership with market-leading technology and innovation intermediary organizations.
• Deploying innovative blended operating model designed to deliver singular programmatic results and collective action impacts, creating scalable outcome opportunities.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Implemented strategies, financial adjustments, and executed short-term initiatives to accelerate turnaround. Established vision, operational plan, and organizational direction. Restored confidence and positive civic.
• Decreased debt balance and expenses by 11%; increased total revenue by 8%.
• Secured competitive grant funding of $1.5 million from corporate, philanthropic, and government sources.
• Negotiated loan forbearance agreements with commercial creditors to conserve cash during financial crisis, demonstrating institutional integrity and restoring organizational credibility.
• Provided local enterprise development leadership through the Small Business Development Center, one of only 30 in Ohio. Recognized as one of Ohio’s Top-performing centers in 2007 and 2008.

Buffalo, New York, US

• Green-based urban revitalization membership organization, leveraging America’s first system of parks.Led turnaround to improve board relations, communications, and information flow. Managed a $2.7 million budget and.
• Restored organizational confidence; restructured board committees, revised bylaws and governance policies, and enhanced board / staff relations.
• Led community economic development, capital, and operations fundraising and strategic planning for the restoration of the historic 1,200-acre urban parks system.
• Negotiated settlement-distribution process with state power authority, city, and county, leading to a $100 million investment to fund new greenway project.
• Introduced new community economic development concepts, leveraging a unique urban amenity to cultivate neighborhood environments more hospitable to private capital investments. Obtained buy-in from top civic, business.
• Eliminated budget deficit of $250,000 and re-established organizational credibility by beating fundraising goals by more than 200 percent. Secured a philanthropic investment to complete a $252 million urban parks.

Management consulting firm specializing in transformational organizational development, including diversity/inclusion audits, assessments and training services, opinion survey instruments and management, employee and customer satisfaction and retention strategies.

The Council was the outgrowth of years of concern raised by various community leaders and organizations regarding diversity and economic development. A cohesive, inclusive community is seen by many Southwest Michigan residents as crucial to enhancing individual opportunity for all of the region’s residents and, with that, the collective economic and social.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

One of the nation’s oldest and largest chambers, with more than 6,000 members, CincyTech is the technology growth and innovation program of the Cincinnati USA Partnership, the Chamber’s regional economic development initiative.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

CincyTech is a public-private partnership whose mission is to invest in high-growth startup technology companies in Southwest Ohio, through management assistance, seed-capital investments and connections to partners who share our mission.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

A legal professional association, with practice areas focused on:- Fraternal organizations- Workers comp and Social Security Disability law- Employment and labor law- Land use, zoning and eminent domain- Historic preservation law- Constitutional law and civil rights- Local government and community representation- Election law

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Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science

Juris Doctor, Law

Master Of Education, Educational Foundations

Certificate, Economic Development