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Board of Director: Omowale Satterwhite

Frank J. Omowale Satterwhite

National Community Development Institute

Frank J. Omowale Satterwhite is a community-builder who completed an undergraduate degree at Howard University, a Master's Degree at Southern Illinois University and a doctoral degree at Stanford University.

Omowale founded the National Community Development Institute in Oakland, California where he now serves as a Senior Advisor to the President. NCDI is a non-profit, technical support center whose mission is to build capacity for social change in communities of color and other underserved communities in a culturally-based way.

Omowale was previously employed as Associate Director, Western Regional Office, College Entrance Examination Board; Associate Dean and Chairman of African American Studies, Oberlin College; Assistant to the Superintendent and Acting Superintendent, Ravenswood City School District; President, Institute for the Study of Community Economic Development; and President, Community Development Institute which he founded in 1979.

In a typical year, Omowale provides management services to 75 social justice, health/ human service and community-building organizations; he conducts training programs for consultants working in communities of color; and he helps design and implement community building initiatives in cities around the country. During the past 25 years, he has assisted more than 1,100 organizations in 85 cities and 40 states.

Omowale is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management headquartered in Washington, D.C. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Applied Research Center and Urban Habitat (Oakland, CA); Community Development Institute, Girl’s Club of the Mid-Peninsula, and Teen Home (East Palo Alto, CA); and Praxis Project (Washington, D.C.). He has also served on the East Palo Alto City Council and the San Mateo County Planning Commission.

During his career, Omowale has been honored with numerous professional and civic awards including the Unsung Hero Award by KQED Public Television in San Francisco, Person of the Year Award by the Peninsula Community Foundation, and Community Service Award by the National Council of Negro Women, Golden Gate Section. In 2005, NCDI, under Omowale’s leadership, was given a national “Leadership in Action” award by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation