Member, Green Mt Care Board, State of Vermont, 2011-2018
Chair, Board of Trustees, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2006-
The Community National Bank, Advisory Board member, November 2000.
Director, Public Assets Institute
Director, Vermont Digger
Faculty and Consultant to The International Initiative 1999.
Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, Washington, DC. 1999.
Director, Cathedral Square Corp. 2005, (housing and services for the elderly and disabled).
Consultant to the Children's Defense Fund on Children's Health Care. 2006-2008.
Senior Consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore MD. 1999-2005.
Chair, National Advisory Committee for the "Supporting Families after Welfare" (For the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), 2000-2005.
National Advisory Committee for the "Covering Kids" Initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, April 1998-2006.
The "Living and Learning" Barre City/Danforth Foundatiobn Project - Steering Committee Member, 1997-2005.
Faculty, 2002 - 2004, Policy Academy of the Child Development Center of Georgetown University
Vermont Community Foundation, Middlebury Vt., Board Member, August 1996-2007.
Council of Advisors, National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. 1999-2006.
Director, Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, MA, June 2003 - July 2006
Trustee, Fletcher Allen Health Care System, December 2002 - 2004
Chair, Governor's Bipartisan Commission on Access and Affordability of Health Care for Vermonters, February - November 2001.
Faculty, Center for Best Practices, National Governors' Association, February 2000-2004.
The Danforth Foundation Policymakers' Program Advisory Board, 1999-2002
Carnegie Corporation, New York City, - Periodic Resource, 1994-1998.
Vermont Telecommunications Application Center (VTAC), Charter Board Member, December 1997 - March 2000.
Vermont Educational & Health Buildings Financing Agency, Ex Officio Board Member, January 1991 - October 1999
President, American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) (previously American Public Welfare Association, APWA)
As Board President directed adoption of expanded mission and name change after 62 years, and the recruitment and hiring of new Executive Director for this national organization. December 1996 - December 1998.