Print pageRon Dwyer-Voss is the owner and founder of Pacific Community Solutions, Inc., a training, consulting and technical assistance company focused on working with community-based initiatives, nonprofit organizations and local governments. His work focuses on asset-based community development and organizing, community engagement and mobilization, education, participatory evaluation and community health. Dwyer-Voss has been a community organizer, community development corporation director, leadership development coach and trainer, as well as an elected school board member.
Dwyer-Voss began working with the Asset-Based Community Development model while organizing on the south and west sides of Chicago. Since then he has worked with faith-based communities; African-American, Latino and Southeast Asian communities; and a mix of urban and rural communities. He also works with youth development coalitions and education-focused organizations. Dwyer-Voss is the past chairperson of the National Community Building and Organizing Initiative of NeighborWorks America, and has provided training in community building and organizing at NeighborWorks Training Institutes around the country. He has trained school board members and administrators on how to more effectively engage their communities in local schools, as well as how to mobilize their communities to advocacy. When he is not working, Dwyer-Voss loves time with his family, travel, sports, live music, and exploring the outdoors kayaking, snowboarding, hiking, and fishing on whatever boat is available.
