Patrick Scully

Deputy Director

Patrick Scully is executive vice president of The Paul J. Aicher Foundation (formerly the Topsfield Foundation, Inc.), where he serves as Deputy Director of Everyday Democracy.

Before joining the foundation, Scully served for nine years as a program officer and director of research at the Kettering Foundation. During the 1993-94 academic year, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Budapest, Hungary, assisting some of East Central Europe's newly formed civic associations in the development of grassroots public-policy discussion groups. Following his time with Kettering, Scully was a project manager at the Harwood Group, a nonpartisan public-issues research firm.

Scully holds an interdisciplinary doctorate degree in social science (with an emphasis on American studies, U.S. political history, and political science) from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has authored numerous articles, reports, and discussion guides on topics such as civic engagement and public deliberation, the role of grant-making foundations in strengthening civil society, immigration and community change, citizens' views of the role of money in politics, and health-care reform.