Jeremy White

Jeremy White is the Founder and President of RestoreHope Consulting, which was created to address the on-going organizational needs of community helpers and healers and in so doing to restore some of the hope that been lost in communities around the country. Through words of encouragement and inspiration to those providing vital services or to those in need themselves the aim of SpeakLife is to restore, revitalize and re-energize its hearers so that they are better empowered to transform the lives of those whom they serve.

For nearly three years, Mr. White was the Special Assistant for Faith-based Policy Outreach/Associate Director for Outreach for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. In this capacity, Mr. White served as the architect for the Bush Administration’s outreach efforts aimed at developing partnerships between faith-based and community organizations and Federal, State and Local government agencies in the provision of social services.

Mr. White addressed audiences of thousands offering words instruction, inspiration hope and encouragement during conventions and conferences, luncheons and trainings and workshops around the country. He focused on educating faith-based and community leaders about how to partner with government to enhance their social service delivery. In that capacity, Mr. White also assisted national religious and community leaders as well as Governors and Mayors and their staffs with better addressing the needs of organizations that they serve.

Prior to working at the White House, Jeremy served as coordinator of youth programs at the Unique Learning Center, a faith-based academic enrichment program in Washington, DC. The 24-year old organization works wonders inspiring the city’s youth and equipping them with faith, love and hope along with the academic resources and tools necessary to succeed in life. Mr. White was responsible for tracking the academic progress of the high school students.  He still volunteers with the center and its students.

In addition to addressing the needs of communities as a practitioner, Jeremy has focused on these issues from a research perspective. He was a program and policy analyst for Public/Private Ventures of Philadelphia, a research organization focused on at-risk youth and education issues. He also was co-author of the Manhattan Institute’s study on Faith-based Programs for At-Risk Youth in Washington, DC. The study examined the extent of programs serving youth identifying over 130 such programs and awarding a selected few small grants to enhance their programs.

Before working with P/PV, Jeremy worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution where he contributed to the book The Orphaned Capital, which provided recommendations that helped to remedy the former financial woes of the District of Columbia’s municipal government. He also worked in the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy (now Metropolitan Policy Program) focusing on issues of urban and regional economic development around the country.

Jeremy is a graduate of Princeton University where he majored in public affairs, concentrating on urban revitalization and economic development in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and received a certificate in Spanish Language and Culture. He is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Program Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society.