James DeBord

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  Published on: 9/25/2008    Last Visited: 9/25/2008  

  James DeBord
  
  Director, York Counts
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  James DeBordDirector, York Counts
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  James DeBordJames DeBord was named the Director of YorkCounts in February 2006.
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  In that role James is charged with carrying out the YorkCounts mission to improve the quality of life in York County, and to provide support to the various YorkCounts compacts, engagements and implementation projects including the Metro-York initiative.
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  In that capacity James worked on a wide variety of issues including corporate tax reform and served on numerous committees on behalf of the Rendell Administration.James is also the co-founder and a senior partner with Jack Burden & Associates, a market, public policy and development research firm located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.At Jack Burden & Associates James has overseen projects for clients that have included the National Constitution Center, American Rivers, 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, and the Newseum, among many others.Prior to his work with Jack Burden & Associates, James worked for Greater Philadelphia First, a non-profit organization business group comprised of the largest employers in the Philadelphia region.James graduated from Albright College in 1991 with a degree in History and Political Science.He received a master's degree in Twentieth Century World History with a concentration in International Relations from Villanova University in 1994.In 2001, Albright College named James their outstanding young alumnus of the year.James resides with his wife Anne Louise and three children Andrew, Meredith and Matthew in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

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  Published on: 8/31/2007    Last Visited: 8/31/2007  

  James DeBord '91Albright College - alumni
  
  13th and Bern Streets , PO Box 15234 , Reading, PA 19612-5234 , 610-921-2381
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  James DeBord '91
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  James DeBord '91Senior PartnerJack Burden & Associates

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  www.yorkdispatch.com/yd/local/ci_7375750 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/5/2007    Last Visited: 11/5/2007  

  James DeBord, executive director of YorkCounts, had planned to discuss the report at a Nov. 12 luncheon event, but the event is being rescheduled so that elected officials and the public at large may be briefed first.
  
  Only the date has changed.

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  www.yorkdispatch.com/local/ci_6927191 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/18/2007    Last Visited: 9/19/2007  

  James DeBord, director of YorkCounts, praised the survey effort and said the results support much of what is already known about problems in the York area.Though the problems can be concentrated in some areas more than others, he said the area needs to work together to stem spreading crime and to improve the quality of education throughout the region.
  
  "I think everyone recognizes the fact that we need to do better," DeBord said.

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  Published on: 3/7/2008    Last Visited: 3/7/2008  

  YorkCounts is looking at the problem through a wide,angle lens, said James DeBord, director of the organization.YorkCounts is working to improve York County's quality of life on several fronts.
  
  "It serves no purpose to teach kids how to hold a job if you don't first focus on getting an education and avoiding distraction," he said.
  
  It's hard to expect better outcomes from many of these kids if they've been subjected to 12 years of broken homes, poverty and other factors that influence a student's ability to concentrate in school, he said.

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  Published on: 8/16/2002    Last Visited: 3/18/2005  

  James DeBord - Democrat, head of Jack Burden and Associates, a corporate market research firm.
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  "It's something that appeals to me with my longtime connection to policy that affects this county," said DeBord.

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  Published on: 7/1/2005    Last Visited: 1/28/2007  

  "This is big stuff," said James DeBord, director of YorkCounts, a group that manages a variety of initiatives to improve the quality of life in the county."We're very excited."
  
  Besides economic benefits, DeBord said the cooperation among municipalities and universities required for the KIZ is exactly the type of work his group is promoting.

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  Published on: 7/7/2003    Last Visited: 7/7/2003  

  This regular column, by James DeBord, a Senior Associate at Jack Burden, analyzes contemporary political problems that have escaped easy solutions.Read his most recent work or visit the All Points Bulletin archive

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  York Dispatch - Business - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/31/2006    Last Visited: 4/1/2006  

  YorkCounts has appointed James DeBord as the organization's new director.Before that, he served as the executive policy director of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue.

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  York Dispatch - Metro-York continues to push for... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/12/2007    Last Visited: 2/13/2007  

  "All the people involved in (Metro-York) know they don't have the answers," said James DeBord, director of YorkCounts, which created the project last year.
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  Metro-York's work groups, made up of municipal, school and business officials, are expected to release their recommendations by the summer to the project's leadership committee, DeBord said.
  
  Project leaders will publicly announce the recommendations in the fall, DeBord said.
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  "We're bringing in those national experts who are bringing in other ideas of what has been done and what has worked and what hasn't worked to give us an understanding that with some of those things we don't have to reinvent the wheel, or there are some things that we can pattern, or some things that might spark an idea of what might work here," DeBord said.

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