David B. Howard

David B. Howard, MSW, Ph.D., has more than 23 years of professional experience in the nonprofit sector, including senior management, program planning and evaluation, research, data management and analysis, and direct care. Since 2019, David has provided professional consulting services focused on research, evaluation, and monitoring for nonprofits and public agencies. From 2015–2024, David served as the Senior Vice President of Research, Evaluation & Learning at Covenant House International, where led strategic efforts to achieve positive outcomes for and with youth experiencing homelessness by building a federation-wide organizational culture that embraces and implements rigorous performance measurement, continual quality improvement, and program excellence.

Prior to his work at Covenant House, David was the Director of Research and Innovation at The Doe Fund, one of New York's largest homeless service agencies, and he was a researcher at the UCLA Center for Civil Society, where he co-authored numerous reports on the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. David is also a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community, a cohort of professionals from the social, public and private sectors, which focuses on the importance of high performance in the pursuit of lasting impact and a more just and sustainable world. David is also a founding Board Member of the Liberty Fund, New York’s first city-wide bail fund. 

David is a graduate of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, where he earned his Ph.D. and a master’s in social welfare, and University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor’s degree.