Non-Resident Scholar, Faith-Based & Community Initiatives
ICF Macro International, Inc.
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William Wubbenhorst Vitae

William Wubbenhorst serves both as a Coordinator of the FaithService Forum for ICF Macro International, Inc., and also as a non-resident fellow for Baylor University’s Institute for the Study of Religion.

At present, Mr. Wubbenhorst is serving as Subcontract Manager and FBCO Liaison for a $8 million Pathways out of Poverty grant funded by the US Department lf Labor (USDOL).  Mr. Wubbenhorst is responsible for coordinating with project staff at four local sites throughout the country to develop partnerships with FBCOs to recruit, train and place individuals from disadvantaged populations into career track green job positions.

For ICF Macro, Mr. Wubbenhorst recently served as project director for Training and Technical Assistance provided to 97 Promoting Responsible Fatherhood grantees funded through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Family Assistance.  Most recently he worked on behalf of DHHS’ Administration for Children and Families, to identify best practices associated with abstinence education initiatives provided by non-profit FBCOs to high-risk populations throughout the U.S.

Mr. Wubbenhorst also provided assistance to the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) and the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Americorps*VISTA program on projects related to their faith-based and community initiatives.  For USDOL, Mr. Wubbenhorst supported the Department’s efforts to develop local partnerships between workforce development boards and FBCOs to better serve hard-to-reach populations with training and employment services.  The work for Americorps*VISTA also involved an evaluation of the number and types of FBCO partners, along with selected profiles of model programs, particularly in the area of mentoring children of prisoners.

Mr. Wubbenhorst has published a number of articles pertaining to Charitable Choice and the Faith-Based/Community Initiative, and previously served as an independent research consultant for the Center for Public Justice, conducting research on Charitable Choice and other related faith-based initiatives. Most recently, he has published case study evaluations through Baylor/ISR on the Violence Free Zone Initiative, operated through the Center for Neighbor Enterprise, entitled:  Tracking the Milwaukee Violence Free Zone Initiative and Richmond Violence Free Zone Initiative. Mr. Wubbenhorst also presented a paper entitled The Intermediary Role in Workforce Development:  A Laboratory for FBCO Collaborations at the White House National Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conference in June of 2008.

Mr. Wubbenhorst has also published case study evaluations on the Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, the Texas OneStar Foundation and the Latino Coalition for Faith and Community Initiatives.  Previously, he published peer reviewed articles in Social Work and Christianity entitled Workforce Development and the Black Church — Knowledge, Interest, Commitment, and Collaborative Potential:  A Memphis Case Study and Enough About Leveling the Playing Field: What’s the Playing Field?”.

Prior to that, Mr. Wubbenhorst worked in the Massachusetts State Government. During his State Government tenure, Mr. Wubbenhorst was directly involved in implementing changes to State contracting policies for human service providers through pricing and performance-based contracting reforms.  He has also authored and published a case study for graduate management school on efforts to reform the State’s $1.4 billion purchase-of-service (POS) system for funding social service programs.

Mr. Wubbenhorst received an MBA with a concentration in Public/Non-Profit management, from Boston University’s School of Management.  He is currently a Technical Director at Macro International.