Dan Duncan has over 30 years of professional management experience in the nonprofit and for-profit professional services sectors.  Currently he serves as the Senior Vice President, External Relations for the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.  He is responsible for the organization’s community building, public policy and grant making activities as well as its major gifts and marketing activities.  Prior to joining the United Way in Tucson, he served as the Vice President for Community Building for the United Way of Central Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana and the President of the Mesa United Way in Mesa, Arizona.  While at the Mesa United Way he developed a national model for moving United Ways to a community building/asset-based approach through a neighborhood development strategy.   He began his United Way career in the late 70s, at the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, after serving as the Executive Director of Information and Referral Services and the Executive Director and Founder of the Community Food Bank.

In addition to his United Way involvement, he also serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Asset Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University and a member of the Leadership Practice, a partnership between Public Allies and the ABCD Institute.   Mr. Duncan also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the School of Social Work at Arizona State University.  At ASU he teaches Social Policy and Community and Organizational Change from an asset-based perspective. 

As a human service professional, Mr. Duncan has worked to integrate an asset-based community development perspective into the United Way system as well as other nonprofit organizations and governmental organizations.  He recently authored an article on Community Development from an asset based perspective for the Philanthropy in America, A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.

Mr. Duncan has a Masters of Social Work degree from Arizona State University and Bachelors degrees in Social Welfare and Sociology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.