Mary McCormick

Mary McCormick, President of the Fund for the City of New York.

"Ms. McCormick is currently a member of the Mayor's Committee on Appointments and the Kings County Judicial Screening Commission for the Second District. She serves on the boards of the White House Project, the National Center for State Courts, the Robin Hood Foundation and the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City. She was named by then Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg to chair his Transition Committee on Social Services in 2001 and was later appointed by him to the 2006 New York City Charter Revision Commission. Mayor Edward Koch appointed Ms. McCormick to the New York City Youth Board and the Commission on Four–Year Old Education. Ms. McCormick co-founded the Food Bank for New York City and served as Board Chair of Bargemusic. She received the Luther Gulick Award for Outstanding Leadership in Public Affairs in 1994 and the first national New Leadership Skills Award in 2004. In 2001, Fast Company magazine recognized Ms. McCormick for her pioneering use of technology to improve communities. She is an honors graduate of Radcliffe College and holds an M.A. from New York University and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University."