Ted Howard

Howard has given speeches at conferences and to groups including the Council on Foundations, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Seminar on Green Recovery, the 2010 Microenterprise National Conference, Clinton Global Initiative-America, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the Co-operatives United World Conference (Manchester, England), various regional Federal Reserve Banks, as well as at universities including the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, MIT, Georgetown, Oberlin, Michigan State and the Ohio State University.

Since 2001, Howard has served as chairman of the board of Search for Common Ground, a conflict resolution NGO. He is chairman of the board of ocean advocacy group Blue Frontier Campaign, and a board member of LIFT, a national anti-poverty organization. In the early 1970s, he co-directed The People's Bicentennial Commission with Jeremy Rifkin, and in 1977 the pair co-founded the Foundation of Economic Trends.

He was an actor, known for Moby Dick (1956).

Ted Howard (born 1950, Ohio) is a social entrepreneur and author. He is the founder and Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative and served as the Minter Senior Fellow for Social Justice with the Cleveland Foundation from 2010-2014. For more than 30 years, Howard has worked for non-profit organizations including UN agencies and The Hunger Project.

Ted Howard was born on November 4, 1911 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada as Frederick W. Elvidge.