Tony Proscio

Tony Proscio is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University and a planning and communications consultant to foundations and major nonprofit organizations. His clients have included the United Nations, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford, Robert Wood Johnson, Rockefeller, and F.B. Heron Foundations, the National Organization on Disability, and LISC. He is co-author, with Paul S. Grogan, of the book Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival, and author of three published essays on civic and philanthropic jargon: "In Other Words", "Bad Words for Good", and "When Words Fail". In the late 1990s he was New York City's deputy commissioner for homeless services, and earlier was associate editor of The Miami Herald, where he was lead editorial writer on economic issues and wrote a weekly opinion column.