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 Each month in 2005, ARS will be introducing its Board members and Associates. This month, we introduce Nancy Douzinas, President of the Rauch Foundation, and Scott Fosler, Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs, College Park.
 Nancy Rauch Douzinas has been President of the Rauch Foundation, whose mission focuses on environment, young children and leadership, since 1990. Under Dr. Douzinas' leadership, the Rauch Foundation has sought to be a catalyst for systemic change for the benefit of Long Island's disadvantaged children and families, its environment and the development of civic and non-profit leadership.
Prior to 1998, Dr. Douzinas maintained a private practice as a family therapist and worked as a psychologist in clinical and research positions in New York City and Long Island clinics and hospitals. From 1992 to 1998 she was a program associate with The Ackerman Institute for The Family in New York City.
On the board of the Regional Plan Association, Dr. Douzinas is keenly interested in the impact larger systems such as transportation have on people and places. In 1998, she accompanied several Long Islanders interested in smart growth on a trip to Milwaukee. She then became a founding member of Sustainable Long Island, an organization dedicated to promoting the environment on Long Island, and served as its first chairperson. She graduated from Smith College and received a master's degree and a doctorate in Community Psychology from New York University.
 Scott Fosler is a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs, College Park, and Roger C. Lipitz Senior Fellow in the School's Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise. From 1992 to January 2000 he was president of the National Academy of Public Administration, a nonpartisan organization chartered by Congress to improve the structure, management, and performance of the American system of governance. There he supervised an extensive program of research and consulting for federal, state, and local government and their interactions with the private, nonprofit, and civic sectors.
He worked for 18 years with the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a national public policy research organization composed of 200 corporate executives, where he served as vice president and director of government studies. He also previously served in senior staff positions with the Institute of Public Administration of New York, and in the federal government for the National Commission on Productivity.
Mr. Fosler was elected to two terms on the County Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, where he also served as council president. During his tenure on the County Council, he was elected president of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG), and chaired the National Association of Counties (NACO) Steering Committee on Intergovernmental Relations.
He holds a B.A. from Dickinson College (Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and has studied in Italy, Spain, and Norway.
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