Dear Reader,
I am in awe of everything that our dedicated staff, best-in-class pro bono partners, and incredible public and private sector institutional leaders have accomplished in this exceptional year, particularly through their collective mobilization to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and set our region on a path to an inclusive and equitable recovery. I hope you will read much more about that critical work throughout this report.
As I enter my fifth year as Civic Consulting Alliance’s Board Chair, I am filled with a great sense of pride as well as with excitement for all that lies ahead. Since I assumed my role in 2016, Civic Consulting Alliance more than doubled in the scope and scale of its impact, to a $4.7 million organization with a full-time staff of 31. Over those years, we have continued to at least triple the value of our staff through the incredible leverage provided by the generous commitments of our pro bono partners, many of whom are represented by the leaders on our Board and Leadership Council.
At this unprecedented moment of concurrent public health, social, and economic crises, I believe firmly in Civic Consulting Alliance’s potential to be part of the transformative change needed to rebuild our regional systems to be more just, resilient, and equitable in the future.
This means continuing the hard work that we have only just begun: to examine how we work, to build a more diverse Board and team, and to nurture a more inclusive organizational culture. We are grateful for everything that our longtime, outgoing CEO Brian Fabes did to establish a strong foundation of trust and credibility in the unique value of our model; we could not be in better hands than those of our new CEO and President Rebekah Scheinfeld to articulate and advance a compelling vision for how to lead Civic Consulting Alliance into this next phase of its journey.
I am grateful for and inspired by all of our Board members, staff, clients, pro bono, and philanthropic partners, who we collaborate with every day to make the Chicago region a great place for everyone to live in and work. I hope that you will read on and appreciate this incredible list of individuals and firms.
Thank you for your invaluable contributions that continue to make our work possible.
Sincerely,
Deborah L. DeHaas, Chair
Civic Consulting Alliance
Our Board
Our Board—comprised of executives from Chicago’s most prominent corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic organizations—is vital to building the fiscally sustainable organization needed to maintain the scope and scale of Civic Consulting Alliance’s impact. These leaders provide invaluable resources—including pro bono teams and fellows, philanthropic support, access to new networks, and strategic counsel—that maximize the impact of our work. The following members served on our Board in FY2020 (July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2020).
Deborah L. DeHaas* | Chair
Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Leadership Center
Paula Allen-Meares, PhD
Chancellor Emerita, University of Illinois John Corbally Presidential Professor Emerita, Professor of Medicine,
UIC Chicago College of Medicine
Larry A. Barden
Partner and Chairman of the Management Committee
Sidley Austin LLP
Ricardo Bekin
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
Ativo Capital
Bram Bluestein*
Managing Partner
Bluestein and Associates, LLC
James B. Coleman
Chicago Office Managing Director, Products Operating Group Managing Director
Accenture
Michael Collins*
Partner and Chief Financial Officer
Bain & Company
Michelle L. Collins
President
Cambium LLC
Francesca Cornelli
Dean
Kellogg School of Management
Matthew C. Crowl
Partner
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
A. Steven Crown
General Partner
Henry Crown and Company
Gillian Darlow
Chief Executive Officer
Polk Bros. Foundation
Aarti Dhupelia
Vice President for Undergraduate Education and Dean of the Undergraduate College
National Louis University
Daniel Diermeier^
Former Provost
University of Chicago
Michael C. Evangelides
Principal
Deloitte
Charles L. Evans
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Michael Fassnacht
Chief Marketing Officer for the City of Chicago
World Business Chicago
John Garabedian*
Senior Advisor
BCG
Sunil Garg
Phunhousian in Chief
DNS Capital
Brent Gledhill
Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Banking
William Blair & Company
Larry J. Goodman, MD*
Retired CEO of Rush University Medical Center and President Emeritus of Rush University
Graham C. Grady
Partner
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
David Hackett*
Partner
Baker McKenzie LLP
Lori Healey
Implementation Lead
Obama Presidential Center
Linda Imonti^
Managing Principal
KPMG LLP
Kish Khemani
Partner
Kearney
John W. McCarter, Jr.
Chair, Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institution
Dorri McWhorter
Chief Executive Officer
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago
Cindy S. Moelis
President
The Pritzker Traubert Foundation
Laurence Msall
President
Civic Federation
David Narefsky
Partner
Mayer Brown
Christopher A. O’Herlihy
Vice Chairman
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
James D. Pajakowski
Executive Vice President, Strategy and Quality
Protiviti
John Petrovski
Senior Managing Director, Commercial Real Estate
BMO Harris Bank
Anne Pramaggiore^
Former President and CEO
ComEd
Curtis Reed, Jr.
Managing Director and Region Manager - Chicago
JPMorgan Chase
Kedra Newsom Reeves
Managing Director and Partner, Chicago
BCG
Robert G. Reiter, Jr.
President
Chicago Federation of Labor
E. Scott Santi+
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ITW
Chair
The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago
Jennifer F. Scanlon+
President and Chief Executive Officer
UL Inc.
Chair
The Commercial Club of Chicago
Mark Shadle
Managing Director, Corporate Affairs
Zeno Group
Meghan Shehorn
Partner
Bain & Company
Goli Sheikholeslami^
Former Chief Executive Officer and President
WBEZ
Maurice Smith
President and CEO
Health Care Service Corp.
Robert Soles
Partner, Technology Audit and Assurance
KPMG LLP
Susan Stelter
Chief People Officer and Co-Founder
West Monroe Partners
Tina Tabacchi
Partner in Charge, Chicago
Jones Day
William Von Hoene*
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Exelon Corporation
Frederick H. Waddell ^ +
Former Chairman
Northern Trust Corporation
Former Chairman
Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago
Kelly R. Welsh*+
President
The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago
Robert Wislow*
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Parkside Realty, Inc.
Dana Wright
Managing Director
MATH Venture Partners
* Executive Committee Member
^ Term ended in FY2020
(before June 30, 2020)
+ Ex Officio Member
