About Bill Dodge
Bill Dodge has devoted his career to building successful communities, from neighborhoods to regions.
Bill has especially helped community leaders and citizens to develop their capacities to address tough regional challenges, such as safeguarding against natural and manmade threats, overcoming intercommunity fiscal, economic, and racial disparities, and shaping renewable regional growth.
As Executive Director of the National Association of Regional Councils, Bill shared information on new funding resources and offered assistance on new governance tools to regional councils of governments and other regional public, private, academic, and civic organizations. He brought regional leaders and their organizations together, in annual Regional Summits, to help advance a National Regional Agenda and guide the preparation of the first National State of the Regions report.
For the past two decades, Bill has helped community leaders and citizens, domestically and globally, to strengthen their regional governance and design and launch new regional initiatives.
Earlier, Bill breathed life into new organizations to address pressing challenges, such as the District of Columbia Model Cities program, the State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management, and the Allegheny County (PA) Department of Planning and Development, and directed private, academic, and civic organizations. Bill even served, twice, as the Interim Town Administrator for one of his two regional homes, Silverton, Colorado, in the Southwestern Colorado Region.
Bill has been a visiting professor in graduate schools of public affairs and administration. He co-authored Shaping a Region’s Future: A Guide to Strategic Decision-Making for Regions, a manual to guide regional strategic planning processes, and wrote Regional Excellence: Governing Together to Compete Globally and Flourish Locally, a book to guide explorations of regional decision-making.
Bill holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering (Cornell University), a master’s degree in foreign affairs and political economy (University of Virginia), and a certificate in urban and regional planning (Harvard University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Bill is active nationally as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the recipient of the Don Stone Intergovernmental Cooperation Award of the American Society of Public Administration.
Bill has a wife, Cynthia Chertos; two sons, Matthew and Zachary; and two grandchildren, Tadashi and Miyako. In his other regional home, Claremont, California, he lives in an intentional community, Pilgrim Place, committed to peace, justice and the care of the earth.
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