Frederick A. Davie

Fred Davie "joined P/PV in 2001 and became president on June 1, 2006. He brings a wealth of public- and private-sector experience; a deep knowledge of community development and organizing, housing and youth employment issues; and a strong commitment to improving the nation's social policies.

"Mr. Davie began his professional career in 1982 as assistant to the executive director of the New York City Mission Society, where he developed and managed community-improvement programs. He went on to become an executive, first at the Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperatives and then the Presbytery of New York City. In 1991, he joined the public sector, first as special assistant to the president of the New York City Board of Education, then as chief of staff to the deputy mayor for Community and Public Affairs, and finally as deputy borough president in the Office of the Manhattan Borough President.

"After six years in City government, Mr. Davie moved to the philanthropic sector. He served as the Program Officer for Faith-Based Community Development at the Ford Foundation, managing a portfolio of nearly $20 million in grants to programs in the US and southern Africa. During his tenure there, Mr. Davie developed a nationally recognized juvenile violence reduction program.

"In 2001, Mr. Davie joined the executive staff of P/PV, where he assumed primary management responsibility for two national demonstration projects designed to test the efficacy of community- and faith-based interventions in producing positive outcomes for high-risk populations. The first was the National Faith-Based Initiative for High-Risk Youth (NFBI), a 12-site demonstration involving collaborations by faith-based institutions and justice/law enforcement organizations. The second was Ready4Work, a national prisoner reentry initiative serving approximately 6,000 ex-prisoners in 15 cities. Mr. Davie developed Ready4Work and secured $27 million from the US Departments of Labor and Justice and the Annie E. Casey and Ford foundations to support this intensive three-year initiative.

"Drawing on his experience with the NFBI and Ready4Work, Mr. Davie has collaborated with staff at the Departments of Labor and Justice, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and members of Congress to develop responses to the nation’s prisoner reentry crisis, including the President’s Prisoner Reentry Initiative (announced in the 2004 State of the Union Address). Mr. Davie continues to work closely with leaders on Capitol Hill (as well as state and municipal governments) to see the lessons of P/PV’s work reflected in public policy.

"Mr. Davie is a member of the board of directors of the Auburn Theological Seminary and the Community Food and Resource Center and is a trustee of the Calvert Social Investment Fund. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Greensboro College in North Carolina, where he was elected the first African American President of the Student Government Association. He was also a Charles H. Revson Fellow at Columbia University and, in 1999, was awarded Yale Divinity School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award for Community Service."