Our Mission

The Schaefer Center for Public Policy was established in 1985 with a mission to bring the University of Baltimore’s academic expertise to bear in solving problems faced by government and nonprofit organizations. The center offers the following services: strategic planning, performance measurement, program evaluation and analysis, opinion research, management consulting and management training. It is through the Schaefer Center that the University of Baltimore and the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts meet a central component of the University’s mission of applied research and public service to the Baltimore metropolitan area and to the state of Maryland.

The Schaefer Center is committed to serving its constituency—the public sector in the Maryland region. The values we espouse in our training, consulting, educational and other activities are the values we live by: quality and efficiency. The result of this commitment can be seen in the excellence of our work. Over the past 25 years, the Schaefer Center has received hundreds of grants and contracts from various local, state and federal agencies, as well as from nonprofit organizations. The center’s staff has trained 4,600 state of Maryland public servants in the Maryland Managing for Results program. Our service commitment is also indicated in the pro bono work we complete, including offering consulting services to nonprofit organizations, conducting research and writing reports on issues of interest to public officials, and hosting educational conferences.