Meet Our President & CEO, Doug Bond
As President and CEO of Amity Foundation, Mr. Bond leads all facets of the organization, bringing his exceptional skills as a community-builder and visionary leader seeking continual systemic improvements for marginalized populations. He currently oversees dozens of contracts for Amity Foundation in California, and Arizona including four residential campuses serving over 500 people with histories of criminal justice system involvement, addiction and homelessness per day. Under his direction, Amity is now currently developing 300 units of permanent housing and over 200 more beds for residential services.
Mr. Bond transitioned into the role of CEO of Amity Foundation in July 2018 following the succession plan developed with the Founder/CEO Rod Mullen who served in the position for over 35 years. Mr. Bond first came to Amity in 1983 after being in several foster homes and was reunited with his father who had been incarcerated. His Father and Sister spent two years at Amity and was one of the first children to be allowed to reunite with this father while going through a reentry program. Mr. Bond’s mother, Betty Garcia, also came to Amity after her release from prison in 1986 and later went on to help open the first in-prison therapeutic community in California at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. Mr. Bond would reunite with his mother almost twenty years later when he came to Amity as a student in need of services. He has lost several of his family members due to the opioid crisis in America and he received custody of his then eight-year-old niece after his sisters’ overdose. His family experience with incarceration, addiction, poverty, and violence has driven his commitment to creating safe teaching and therapeutic environments for men, women, and children.
Mr. Bond has been instrumental in expanding Amity's California services, which have increased from serving 2,000 people to over 20,000 people a year in the last 5 years. He has helped to ensure that people with lived experience have the same opportunities he had including hiring many employees who have lived experience with the criminal justice system, homelessness, foster care and other systems-involvement. He has also been part of the design and management team for the Just In Reach (JIR) jail project which works to serve some of the most at risk for recidivism and homelessness in Los Angeles.
Under his leadership, Amity was awarded the Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programing (STOP) contract in 2018, which is the primary contractor for LA County parole services funding over 80 reentry sites in LA. Amity was awarded three regional contracts in 2019 to provide In-Prison Substance Use Disorder Treatment services and other Juvenile Justice contracts spanning 21 prison locations throughout the state of California, serving over thousands of individuals per year. In 2020 Mr. Bond also led the implementation of the Returning Home Well Initiative, a $30 million dollar private/public partnership to provide coordinated reentry services for individuals reentering the community early from incarceration due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently in 2022, through a competitively bid process, Amity was selected to act as Third-Party Administrator (TPA) through Los Angeles County CEO office to manage and distribute a portion of funds included in the CFCI spending plan, and Non-CFCI funds for Grants to Justice-Focused Community-Based Organizations. Amity is responsible for distributing $55 million over three years across eight Program Areas with the goal of equitably increasing access to funds for organizations serving youth and those impacted by injustice and inequities within the criminal justice systems. To date, Amity has made awards in 7 of the 8 program areas to 119 organizations, with over 90% of them being BIPOC led, and serving the highest need areas of Los Angeles.
Mr. Bond serves in several local, national and international leadership roles. In December 2022, he was named a 2023-24 Stanton Fellow. His inquiry focuses on how Los Angeles can better respond to the needs of individuals returning from incarceration. He also recently joined the National Foster Youth Institute Board along with Representative Karen Bass of California. Mr. Bond is the Chair of Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership (LARRP) and sits on the Board of Directors of the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities (WFTC), Treatment Communities of America (TCA), the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives (CAAPDE), CASA Los Angeles, and Episcopal Community Services.
