Speaker Bio
George T McDonald, Founder and President, The Doe Fund, Inc.
George McDonald is the founder and president of The Doe Fund, a nonprofit organization at the forefront of shaping policy in the area of criminal justice and reentry. Mr. McDonald founded the Doe Fund in 1985 and then in 1990, implemented Ready, Willing & Able, The Doe Fund’s residential work and training program for homeless men and one of the first revenue-generating homeless economic development projects in the nation.
In addition to heading The Doe Fund, Mr. McDonald serves as Co-Chair of the Employment Committee for New York City’s Discharge Planning Initiative, is a member of the New York City Workforce Investment Board Prisoner Reentry Steering Committee and the Chairman of the New York State Independent Committee on Reentry and Employment.
Mr. McDonald also founded the Way Home Coalition, an assemblage of services providers organized to coordinate New York City’s continuum of care for the homeless, and has been appointed a member of the New York State Office of Mental Health Housing Task Force and the New York City Council’s Legislative Advisory Commission on Homelessness.
Mr. McDonald lives in New York with his wife, Harriet Karr-McDonald, Co-Founder of Ready, Willing & Able.
The Social Enterprise Conference 2008 is presented by the Columbia Business School's Social Enterprise Club and the International Development Club with the support of the Social Enterprise Program, Energy Club, Microlumbia Fund, Healthcare Industry Association and Green Business Club, and our generous sponsors. |
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