is Community Impact Director at United Way of Greater Cincinnati and Adjunct Associate Professor of Community Planning in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a faculty member of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University.

Grundy is founder of The Urbanists, a Cincinnati-based movement that advocates for an asset-based approach to the revitalization of historic American cities so they will again be the preferred places to live for the country’s most educated and productive people.  In recognition of that effort, he has been named Resident Urbanist at the Niehoff Urban Studio at the University of Cincinnati.  Grundy also is co-founder of The Community Building Institute, the Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative, the Community Research Collaborative, and Cincinnati’s comprehensive community development initiative called place matters.

As a civic volunteer, Grundy has served as president of the Cincinnatus Association, the Cincinnati Branch of the English Speaking Union, the International Visitors Center of Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati-Liuzhou (China) Sister City Committee.

Terry Grundy lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife Jodine Grantham Grundy, a psychotherapist, life & leadership coach, and political activist.