Past ACCFs

President/CEO, Partners for Livable Communities, Washington DC

Since 1975, Robert McNulty has used his abilities of coalition building and creativity to develop the organization Partners for Livable Places, now known as Partners for Livable Communities. Partners has been on the cutting edge of livability, quality of life, and civic development concerns throughout America, and increasingly in other parts of the world. With a network of over 1,000 organizations ranging from the World Wildlife Fund to the Urban Land Institute, Partners embodies the diversity and consensus building needed in the recovery of the American city.

Mr. McNulty has academic degrees in business and law from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a Fellow at both the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, and at Yale's Pearson College. He received fellowship grants from the Graham Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Smithsonian Institution.

Over the course of his diverse career, Mr. McNulty has worked within the Department of Archeology of Colonial Williamsburg; served as research assistant to the Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History; worked as an Environmental Advisor to the Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration; and served as Assistant Director of the Architecture and Design program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mr. McNulty is widely traveled, having worked in over 300 communities in America and has traveled extensively in some 100 countries around the world. He is a sought-after facilitator who is frequently called to interact between racially divided communities. He offers a unique resource for innovations and ideas that can affect community change.

Mr. McNulty has been a frequent speaker, writer, editor and contributor on urban strategies over the last twenty years and has also written for the The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, the Atlanta Magazine, and California Monthly Magazine.