Janice M. Nittoli *85

Janice Nittoli, retired president of the Century Foundation, the respected public-policy research institution, died June 30, 2017, of frontotemporal dementia at the age of 56.

Nittoli graduated summa cum laude in 1983 from Marymount Manhattan College. In 1985 she earned an MPA degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. Until 1990 she worked for the City of New York, rising to assistant commissioner in the Department of Health, managing the city’s correctional health-care system. Previously, she had worked for the Human Resources Administration and at the Board of Education, developing and managing child-welfare and social- services programs.

From 2006 to 2011, she had been an associate vice president and managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to that, Nittoli was a senior executive at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the nation’s largest private foundation dedicated to improving the lives of poor children and their families. In July 2011 Nittoli was appointed president of the Century Foundation. In 2014 her illness forced her retirement.

She also was an adjunct professor of public administration at CUNY. Prior to her foundation work, she was president of the National Center for Health Education.

Nittoli is survived by her husband, Richard J. Tofel.

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