Jeremy Nowak, a Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) fellow and advisory board member, died July 28 from complications due to a heart attack. He was 66.

Dr. Nowak founded the Philadelphia-based Reinvestment Fund, specializing in social investment, urban policy and strategy. In 2011 and 2012, he was president of the William Penn Foundation, where he developed the blueprint for their grant making. He was a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a scholar at Penn IUR and former chair of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. In 2016, he was a recipient of the Penn IUR Urban Leadership Award (Almanac April 26, 2016). He was named an advisory board member for Penn IUR last year (Almanac February 21, 2017).

Jeremy Nowak Memorial: October 3

Join Penn IUR in The Living Room at The Inn at Penn on Wednesday, October 3, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. for reflection and conversation about pathbreaking social innovator Jeremy Nowak’s enduring work. Mr. Nowak pioneered the framework of “new localism,” coordinated Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, and championed the financing of community development as a solution for struggling neighborhoods. Integrating public, private and non-profit expertise to create shared social and financial good, his work serves as a precedent and template for achieving collective urban prosperity.

Speakers will include Ira Goldstein, president, Policy Solutions, The Reinvestment Fund; Patricia Smith, president and CEO, The Funders Network; and former Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell, who across their respective fields have advanced similar causes with their missions of igniting positive urban growth for the benefit of all.