Anthony Reese

Anthony Reese is the first Chief Operating Officer at TCC.

This position as the latest incarnation of a life spent building organizational capacity in the nonprofit sector. Anthony is a graduate of UCLA, and the Coro Foundation's Public Affairs Program in Los Angeles. He holds a Master's Degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he specialized in urban economic development. It was there that Anthony was first introduced to the work of nonprofits, joining a group of friends from Harvard’s business and law schools to create City Year, an urban youth corps that grew to international prominence and became a model for the national service movement. Anthony’s deep interest in the nonprofit sector drew him to New York City’s Robin Hood Foundation, where he served as its first Chief Financial Officer and Director of Management Assistance. There he helped channel financial resources, technical assistance and other services to community-based nonprofits. The satisfying experience of helping community leaders build institutions under their ideas led him to serve in a variety of management service

organizations from LA’s Center for Nonprofit Management, to Oakland’s National Community Development Institute (NCDI). As Associate Director of NCDI, an intermediary created to provide culturally-based capacity building services to communities of color, Anthony helped build fiscal and administrative systems, provided facilitation, training, coaching and implementation support to community boards and neighborhood collaboratives engaged in comprehensive community change initiatives.

Contact: anthony@nativeland.org