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Advisory Council: Eugene Newport

Eugene "Gus" Newport

Urban Strategies Council

Gus Newport is a Senior Associate at the Urban Strategies Council, Oakland, CA. He is also a Senior Consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Technical Assistance Resource Center. Gus was the first “Fellow” of the Mabel Louise Riley Foundation, and he served as a consultant to the East Bay Funders (a foundation partnership).

Gus is the former Executive Director of the Partnership for Neighborhood Initiative (PNI), Palm Beach County, Florida, and the former Executive Director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), Boston, MA.

He is the former Mayor of Berkeley, CA (1979-1986). During his tenure he served on the advisory board of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and chaired the sub-committees on Education and Employment. He also served as the First Senior Fellow at the William Monroe Trotter Institute, University of Mass. Boston, and as a lecturer in residence at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Gus served as a member of the faculty at Portland State University to the HUD Community First, HUD Senior Managers Seminar, and a member of Yale Community Fellows program faculty.

Gus has worked in several capacities for federal, state, county, and local governments, nonprofit agencies and the private sector. His areas of work are neighborhood planning and development, economic development, youth employment and training, and various financing methods for municipal capital improvements. He has lectured at numerous universities and served on several national policy boards and United Nations committees. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Graduate Program in Community Economic Development at New Hampshire College, and also a member of the board of the Institute for Community Economics.

Gus has a B.A. from Sierra College, Santa Monica, CA, an M.A. in Business form Goddard College, and he is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program.