Senior Associate in the Center for Community and Economic Opportunity, Annie E. Casey Foundation
Funders Together Board Member
Charles Rutheiser is a senior associate in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Center for Civic Sites and Community Change, where he manages the national grant-making on housing and youth homelessness, as well as Casey’s neighborhood transformation investments in Baltimore. He also assists the Foundation’s Social Investment team in identifying program- and mission-related investments in affordable housing Previously, Charles directed the graduate program in applied anthropology at Georgia State University and taught cultural anthropology and urban studies at the Johns Hopkins University, Bryn Mawr College and Western Michigan University. He is the author of two books: Imagineering Atlanta: the politics of place in the city of dreams (1996) and The Opportunity Makers: the first half-century of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (2016), as well as numerous publications on the role of complex social institutions in perpetuating inequality in the United States and Latin America. In addition to his service on the FTEH board, Charles is the incoming chair of Funders for Housing and Opportunity, a national philanthropic funding collaborative focused on addressing the national housing instability crisis. He also serves as a faculty member for the Cities of Opportunity program of the National League of Cities and the advisory committee for the Democratizing Development Program of the Neighborhood Funders Group.
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