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Diane Baillargeon |
Diane Baillargeon succeeded founder William J. Grinker as President and CEO of Seedco (the Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation) in September 2003. As President and CEO, Baillargeon oversees day-to-day operations, directs a staff of based in four states and manages a $26 million annual operating budget. Formerly Executive Vice President, she is also Chief Operating Officer and Chair (respectively) of Seedco subsidiaries the Non-Profit Assistance Corporation (N-PAC) and the EarnFairSM, LLC and an ex-officio Member of Seedco's Board of Directors.
Baillargeon has led a distinguished career in community development and public service. With Grinker, Baillargeon was a founding partner of Human Service Solutions Inc., a consulting firm providing program development, management capacity building, strategic planning, and evaluation research consulting services. Clients of HSS included the DeWitt Wallace Readers Digest Fund, Catholic Charities of New York, New York City Department of Homeless Services, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The United Way of New York City.
As Deputy Commissioner for Policy Management in New York State's Department of Social Services, from 1993 to 1994, Baillargeon was a key policy and program advisor to the Commissioner of New York State's $35 billion social welfare agency. She coordinated policy and program development and promoted the Department's agenda around welfare reform, child welfare, homeless assistance, and health and long-term care.
From 1990 to 1993, Baillargeon served as Deputy Director of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (formerly Substance Abuse Strategy Initiative Program), where she participated in the creation of a public/private partnership organization dedicated to designing and testing innovative approaches to the prevention and treatment of substance abuse by a national population of high-risk youth, ex-offenders, and homeless people.
From 1984 to 1989, Baillargeon worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration, New York City's social welfare agency, first as director of its Office of Policy & Economic Research, then as Deputy Administrator for Policy and Program Development. For HRA she managed policy research, strategic planning, program development and program evaluation functions.
Baillargeon was the recipient of the 2003 Women Achievers Award from the YWCA of the City of New York. Since 1991 she has served as an Evaluator for the Ford Foundation's Innovation in Government award program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She received a Bachelor's Degree from Georgetown University and a Masters in Urban Planning from New York University.
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