Mark McDaniel

Expertise

• Asset-building strategies
• Community-based neighborhood development strategies
• Prisoner reentry
• Program-related Investments
• Workforce strategies

Education

• Master of City and Regional Planning, 1994, Morgan State University
• B.A., Geography, 1991, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Mark McDaniel is senior research associate with the Center for Community Capital. He consults with foundations, policymakers and others on strategies that help connect low-income populations to economic opportunities.

These strategies include connecting neighborhoods to regional workforce opportunities, connecting the unbanked and underbanked to financial services and leveraging investment in low-income areas for housing, community facilities and other economic development opportunities.

McDaniel brings a diverse set of experience in conceptualizing, designing and implementing initiatives intended to improve the socio-economic outcomes of low-income residents and the neighborhoods in which they reside.

He has demonstrated capacity in establishing and maintaining rapport with diverse constituencies including low-income community residents, public- and private-sector officials, direct service and policy practitioners, and evaluation/research professionals.

McDaniel has particular interest in the economic challenges and pathways to opportunity taken by different subpopulations, including students, residents of public housing, youth and the formerly incarcerated.