Mr. McNeely serves as an Advisor to NACEDA and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Fellows program for the UB Schaefer center, and a consultant on community development and nonprofit management. Mr. McNeely’s background and experience has had an imprint on community development for over 30 years.

Prior to his work as Executive Director of the Central Baltimore Partnership, Mr. McNeely spent twenty years as President of the Development Training Institute. DTI operates through national and local programs, providing extensive training in development skills to thousands of leaders in every state on how to invest in communities. Mr. McNeely has also stirred the minds of youth to action, having taught at a number of prestigious universities at the graduate level. Mr. McNeely is a veteran organizer and leader in the field of community development.

As an advocate for housing and neighborhood development, Mr. McNeely’s dedication to activism has a span of over 30 years of excellence. During the Carter Administration, he served as the Director of the national Office of Neighborhood Development at the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. McNeely has shown himself to be an authoritative figure on community economic development and has authored a number of publications on the topic of community building and economic development.

Mr. McNeely serves on the board a number of organizations and coalitions dedicated to community development, including the National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations. Mr. McNeely received a J.D from the University of Maryland school of Law in 1977, his M.A in Psychology at Florida Atlantic in 1969 and his B.A and B.S., in Education at the University of Dayton.