Evette Banfield
Program Director

Evette Banfield is a researcher and analyst with diverse community development experience that encompasses housing and physical development, comprehensive community-building and community-based programs serving children and families. Her project experience includes numerous field research and project coordination roles in more than a dozen evaluation engagements ranging from national multi-year assessments involving numerous sites to smaller scale engagements involving intensive fieldwork in individual communities.

Ms. Banfield is currently conducting an assessment of community-based service delivery programs for the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania. From1996 through 2002 she served as a project staff member at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning in Philadelphia, where she undertook or coordinated fieldwork on several national community development assessments. Among these were the Prudential Foundation’s Neighborhood Partnership Initiative, the Fannie Mae Foundation’s Sustained Excellence Awards Program, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative. During her time at OMG she also participated in several assessments of local intermediaries and community development operating support programs in Indianapolis and Detroit. As part of OMG’s ongoing evaluation of the Rebuilding Communities Initiative, she conducted extensive original field research and authored a monograph on the development of a distinctive community-based child welfare services delivery initiative in Ward 7 of Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining OMG, Ms. Banfield lived in New York where she completed her graduate studies. There she served as a policy analyst for the Families and Work Institute, participated in a consulting team conducting a needs assessment for a community-based organization based in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and worked as a program coordinator for Citibank’s Community Affairs department. Ms. Banfield has also worked as a grants writer for small-size non-profits and as a research assistant for the Citizens’ Committee for Children, a children’s advocacy group.

Ms. Banfield holds a B.A. in Government from St. Lawrence University and a Master’s degree in Urban Policy and Management from the New School for Social Research.