Press Release: Announcing Our Next Chapter

In coordination with King County and the City of Seattle, the National Innovation Service (NIS) is proud to announce that Marc Dones will be departing NIS to join the King County Regional Homelessness Authority as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer.

NIS was engaged to redesign and consolidate King County and Seattle’s homeless service systems in 2018, facilitating a process that centered people who have experienced homelessness in defining and architecting the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. We’ve continued to build on that work in other cities across the country and national policy advocacy. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the strain on homeless service systems across the country. Marc will bring their racial equity-centered systems and design thinking approaches to leading the community through this crisis and on to pursuing housing stability for all. 

Government is only what we agree to do together.

Marc Dones

“Government is only what we agree to do together,” Dones said in an interview with the Seattle Times. “I feel like we have a chance to really get some stuff right, and really build and run a system that is really focused on the right things, and is listening to everybody, rather than, in the traditional bureaucrat mode, ‘we know what’s best for all of you.’ That’s not my approach.”

The National Innovation Service will continue to support and facilitate communities through efforts to transform public service systems through the lenses of racial equity and justice. The team currently has ambitious work underway in Detroit, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and San Francisco.

Please reach out to contact@nis.us.