The Children's Aid Society

Jane Quinn, Assistant Executive Director for Community Schools

As Assistant Executive Director for Community Schools, Jane Quinn oversees Children's Aid's local and national work to forge effective long-term partnerships between public schools and other community resources, using our nine Community Schools in New York City as both a model and a base for national adaptation.

Before joining The Children's Aid Society, Quinn served for seven years as program director of the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, which is dedicated to the educational and career advancement of low-income youth. Previously, she worked for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she directed a national study of youth organizations, which resulted in the publication of a book entitled, A Matter of Time: Risk and Opportunity in the Nonschool Hours.

From 1981-1990, Quinn served as the Director of Program Services for the national Girls Clubs of America and has held positions at the Health Department and Center for Population Options in Washington D.C. She was a caseworker for Chicago's Juvenile Protective Association and Family Counseling Center and has also worked with Catholic Charities in Buffalo, New York.

Quinn received her bachelor's degree in economics from the College of New Rochelle and her master's from the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration. She has also completed extensive training programs in social work, health education and non-profit management at New York University, the University of Hawaii and Columbia University's Institute for Not-for-Profit Management.