Darren Bloch

Senior Advisor to the Mayor, City of New York
Director, Mayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships

Darren Bloch currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Mayor of the City of New York and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships (OSP).

Appointed to both positions in September 2018, Bloch is part of the Mayor’s senior leadership team, with a focus on advancing partnership solutions to expand access, opportunity and equity across the five boroughs. Additionally, as the Director of OSP, he provides oversight, coordination and support to a network of ten “city-affiliated” non-profit foundations (including the Mayor’s Fund, the Fund for Public Schools and the Fund for Public Health) that facilitate public-private work with agencies and office across New York City government.

In leading this work Darren leverages the unique scale of government to engage philanthropy, industry and civic investors, in order to develop public-private partnerships that build measurable and tangible gains for New York City and New Yorkers.

Darren joined the Mayor’s Office following four years leading the Mayor's Fund, a 25-year-old 501(c)3 non-profit foundation that cultivates high-impact partnerships across New York City government. During Darren’s tenure, the Fund has raised and deployed an average of $22 million per year, in support of 50 different City agencies, which partner with over 130 community-based providers, to deliver more than 70 unique programs and projects.

Signature projects launched under Bloch’s leadership included Connections to Care, a $30 million, five-year effort to reimagine community-based mental health services deployed through non-healthcare community-based organizations; the NYC Center for Youth Employment, a three-year, $5 million project to bring greater coordination and rigor to public and private investments in youth workforce efforts; and the NYC Soccer Initiative, a five-year, $3 million partnership that is building 50 mini-soccer pitches, and supporting programming for over 10,000 local youth, in historically under-served neighborhoods across the 5 boroughs.   

Prior to his work with the Mayor’s Fund, Bloch spent nearly two decades in the public and private sectors that has emphasized the value of civic innovation and engagement, consensus building, and entrepreneurial problem solving. Recent roles included serving as the NYC Deputy Public Advocate for Intergovernmental & Community Affairs; the Executive Vice President for the Empire State Development Corporation; the Manager of NYC Government Relations for Con Edison of New York; and the Publisher and Executive Director of Capitol Publishing.

Bloch graduated with a BA from Middlebury College as a double major in Political Science and Philosophy, and received his J.D. cum laude from New York Law School. He is a native New Yorker and resides in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters, where he stays busy as part of their school’s PTA; and coaching his kids’ softball and ski racing teams.