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CAPABILITIES - Economic Development
Strategic Advice to Create Private Sector Initiatives, Source the Right Kind of Investments, and Conceive, Plan, Help Finance, and Implement Fresh Community Economic Development
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CORE COMPETENCIES
1. Private Sector Development
2. Strategic Clarity for National, Provincial, State and Local Leaders –
3. Small Enterprise Support
4. Community Revitalization – to recover from long term decline, and from sudden shocks
5. Sourcing Social Impact Capital for Projects
PAST PERFORMANCE - Selected Illustrative Experiences
1. Atlanta Empowerment Zone - Helped plan a rescue and turnaround of a floundering $100 million Federal grant program
2. Equatorial Guinea – Created CSR program focused on improving vendor and supplier success, for a major fuels producer.
3. SADC – Created network of business schools in Southern Africa to improve management education.
4. ECOWAS – Created network of business school Faculty in West Africa, to improve the teaching of business ethics
5 DRC Congo - Created community and small enterprise development program for HEARCONGO, a non profit, working with women and children in Lualaba Province, home of major copper and cobalt mining, and harsh living and working conditions in surrounding communities.
6. Liberia - Helping attract funding for a new university
DIFFERENTIATION
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Creating impactful public-private partnerships for small and micro business projects.
SUMMARY
ReVise Ineffective Strategies - - - Redefine Misunderstood Problems - - - Help Communities Manage Recovery from Economic Disaster - - and - Transition from Disruptive Events, i.e, plant/base closings, mass layoffs - - Create successful economic development in distressed areas - work with major corporations' public and government affairs offices, especially in defense, mining, transport, chemicals, energy, insurance, manufacturing, banking, and other heavily criticized industries. - -
NAIC - Consulting - - - 541611, 541720, 541820, 541618, 541612
CORPORATE DATA – CONTACT INFORMATION
Reston, Virginia 703 437 7151 richard.america@georgetown.edu www.americaconsulting.net
Duns # 022118401 EIN 47-5679200
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Consulting focus -
- Africa - - Communities near extractive and other mining operations - creating alternative livelihoods, and stronger, cleaner value chains.
- U S - - Local, state, and national governments - - - attracting social impact investment to grow businesses, create jobs, raise incomes.
- U S multinationals - -proactive CSR for impactful community and social economic development
- African higher education - - Identify international financial partners to build accredited programs in management education.
- Local and regional NGOs and civic organizations - - create community economic development programs to uplift women, children and small holder farmers impacted by abusive commercial practices in Africa.
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Richard F. America has been a consultant at Stanford Research Institute, SRI International, - - Taught community, and local economic development at Stanford Business School, University of California Haas School of Business, Berkeley, and at Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, also taught "Investing in Africa", and is Professor of the Practice, Emeritus. - - Bank of America, San Francisco- Real Estate and Community Development - - Helped advance programs in domestic economic development at the U S Department of Commerce, - as Director of Capital Development on the InterAgency Council on Minority Business - - And at the Small Business Administration, as Director of Program Evaluation, Senior Policy Advisor, and Senior Program Manager
Member of InterAgency Working Groups, including 1- Working Group on Private Sector Development in Africa, led by State Department's Africa Bureau, - 2- California Recovery Task Force, with U S Department of Commerce - 3- National Rural Development Council, with U S Department of Agriculture, 4- Defense Economic Adjustment Committee ,and Office of Economic Adjustment, at Department of Defense focused on economic stability of communities surrounding military bases . - - -
Books include 1- Developing the African American Economy (1977) - 2 - Philanthropy and Economic Development (editor, 1995). - - 3 - Paying the Social Debt: Reparations and Community Development, (1993) - - 4 - The Wealth of Races: Measuring Benefits from Past Injustices (editor, 1990) - - 5 - Moving Ahead: Black Managers in American Business ( With Bernard Anderson, 1978 ) - - 6 Soul in Management: African American Managers in Corporate Life , (with Bernard Anderson, 1995) - - - - Selected articles -- Harvard Business Review, "What Do You People Want?" , and, How Minority Business Can Build on It's Strength, - "Turn Plant Closings and Layoffs into Economic Development, Journal of Private Equity, 2013, - Labor Unions and Local Economic Development, Social Policy, 2021. - Regional Corporations and Strategic Philanthropy, Northern Virginia Technology Council, Voice - Economic Development With Limited Supplies of Management, Challenge Magazine of Economic Affairs, 1995, - -
Consulted to World Bank's International Finance Corporation, and to Center for Private Enterprise, on strengthening management education and business schools in Africa. - -
Presented at conferences and workshops at World Bank's Africa Conference, Corporate Council for Africa, National Economic Association, Woodrow Wilson Center, George Washington University's Africa Conference, Georgetown University's Africa Conference, U S Congressional Black Caucus Annual Conference, and Congress of African Economists. - - - - -
- - Advisory Board of Global Business School Network, and of - - African Development University, in Niamey, Niger. - - Co founded Southern African Business School Network. - - Visiting Professor, Institut Superieur de Management, Dakar, Senegal. - - Senior Advisor to Tolbert University, Liberia - - Was member of Steering Group of USAID Higher Education Learning Network - -
Academic- B S Penn State, Economics, MBA Harvard Business School