Fahd Vahidy was elected to the board of The Connecticut Association of Nonprofits (CT Nonprofits). He is one of two new member elected to serve a three-year term on the 19-person board.   

Vahidy is the executive director of Public Allies CT whose mission is to advance new leadership to strengthen communities, nonprofits, and civic participation. He is also the co-founding partner of Street Smart Ventures, a consulting firm that promotes entrepreneurship and economic well-being of local community, links innovative strategies that support young entrepreneurs in work and education, and builds individual and community assets in targeted neighborhoods.

Prior to Public Allies CT and Street Smart Ventures, Vahidy was the assistant director of Our Piece of the Pie (OPP), a nationally recognized youth employment program that integrated work readiness and life skills within a structured youth business model. Under his leadership, OPP received a PEPNet 2002 award from the National Youth Employment Coalition and Federal Department of Labor in recognition of best practices in the fields of youth employment and youth development.

He has a graduate degree in counseling psychology from UCONN Neag School of Education and bachelors of science, also from UConn.

An active member of the community, he served as the co-chairman of the CT Juvenile Justice Alliance, and as a member of Hartford Mayor’s Task Force in Youth Employment, the Advisory Board of UConn’s Asian American Cultural Center, the Founding Committees of the Plowshares Institute for Community Conflict Transformation, the Greater Hartford Youth Development Practitioner Academy, and the Academy for Educational Development’s National Training Institute for Community Youth Work. He is a board member of the Youth Rights Media, and serves on the advisory boards of  UConn’s Nonprofit Leadership Program William Casper Graustein’s Community Leadership Program.

Fahd lives in West Hartford with his wife Monika.

CT Nonprofits is the largest membership organization in the state dedicated exclusively to working with nonprofits in Connecticut. As the voice of nonprofits for more than 30 years, CT Nonprofits has connected organizations with information, education, advocacy and collaboration, helping members focus their energy on the people and communities they serve.