Jane Quinn

Jane Quinn is a social worker and youth worker with four decades of experience, including direct service with children and families, program development, fundraising, grantmaking, research, and advocacy. She currently serves as the assistant executive director for community schools at The Children's Aid Society  in New York City, where she directs the National Technical Assistance Center for Community Schools and contributes strategic planning and sustainability expertise to The Children’s Aid Society's local community schools initiative in New York City. Jane came to CAS from the Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds, where she served as program director for seven years. Prior to that, she directed a national study of community-based youth organizations for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which resulted in the publication of a book entitled A Matter of Time: Risk and Opportunity in the Nonschool Hours. Together with Joy Dryfoos, Jane co-edited a book entitled Community Schools in Action: Lessons from a Decade of Practice, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. In addition, she writes a regular column on youth development practice for Youth Today, the national youth work newspaper.