Operating Partner, The Citistates Group
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When Carol Steinbach started writing about city, state and metropolitan issues, Ronald Reagan was still California’s Governor and Bill Clinton had just finished serving as Texas state coordinator for the McGovern for President campaign.Steinbach, in 1975, was a co-founder of State Legislatures magazine, which she edited until 1978. For the following 14 years, she was an editorial associate of Neal Peirce and a contributing editor of National Journal, focusing on housing and community development. With Peirce, she co-authored the Ford Foundation’s landmark 1987 study of CDCs — Corrective Capitalism. She also wrote extensively on her own, for publications ranging from the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun to Collier’s Encyclopedia.In 1990, Steinbach was awarded the Housing Journalism Award, presented by the National Housing Institute “in recognition of high quality journalism dealing with housing issues.â€? Among the philanthropic and nonprofit organizations for which she conducted surveys and wrote articles were the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Prudential Foundation, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, the Enterprise Foundation, Local Initiatives Support Corporation and Independent Sector.
Steinbach took a break from journalism from 1992 to 1997 to be an entrepreneur, serving as senior banker and member of the board of directors of The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an innovative Washington, D.C. investment bank, specializing in housing and community development finance. She’s now applying the business planning and high-tech tools she focused on at Hamilton, web site planning and management included, in her latest role as Operating Partner of the Citistates Group. Steinbach is also focusing on the neighborhood element of regionalism — how strong, vibrant neighborhoods, even in low-income areas, are necessary to build strong citistates. Last updated January 31, 2001 |
