Lenkowsky
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Les Lenkowsky, who served as chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), is back home in Indiana from his stint in the nation’s capitol, and resumed teaching public affairs and philanthropic studies on the Bloomington and IUPUI campuses this semester.
Lenkowsky was appointed to lead CNCS by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2001. He stepped down last August.
“I am delighted to return to Indiana University because after two years in Washington, it is clearer to me than ever that the finest programs and best scholarly resources in philanthropic studies and nonprofit management in the country are here,” Lenkowsky said.
The federal agency engages more than one million Americans in improving local communities through AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and the National Senior Service Corps. Lenkowsky was appointed as a founding director of CNCS by President Bill Clinton and previously had been named by President George H.W. Bush to the Commission on National and Community Service.
In addition, Lenkowsky was an architect of the USA Freedom Corps, a major White House initiative to foster greater volunteering by Americans. He also was instrumental in the creation of a White House conference on history, citizenship and service, which launched a number of initiatives in Learn and Serve America, and other federal programs to enhance what American students know about the nation’s founding principles and accomplishments.
Prior to joining the IU faculty in 1997, Lenkowsky was president of Hudson Institute, a public policy research institution headquartered in Indianapolis. He also has served as president of the Institute for Educational Affairs, deputy director of the United States Information Agency, research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, director of the Philanthropy Roundtable and director of research at the Smith Richardson Foundation.
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