Impact
Leadership
Rick McGahey is leading the foundation's approach to evaluation and impact assessment for grant making. Rick brings to this new position an expertise in qualitative and quantitative tools, practice and learning.
Rick joined the Ford Foundation in 2005, initially working as a program officer on workforce development and regional economic development issues. He assumed his current duties in August 2008.
Previously, Rick was a managing vice president at Abt Associates, a consulting, research and evaluation firm where he directed work on education, childhood development, social welfare and workforce development. He also has extensive experience in the public sector. He served as assistant secretary for policy, and later for pension and welfare benefits, at the U.S. Department of Labor. He also served as executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and as economic policy adviser for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Earlier, he was deputy commissioner for policy and research for the New York State Department of Economic Development and deputy comptroller for policy and management for the City of New York.
He has a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and has taught at New York University, John Jay College and George Washington University. Rick also serves on the steering committee for the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, which grew out of the foundation’s work in workforce development and promotes effective solutions for low-income people and employers.
Leadership
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Rick McGahey
Director, Impact Assessment
New York
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Cyrus E. Driver
Director, Program Learning and Innovation
New York
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