Charles Kargman

Charley Kargman is an Assistant Director at Partners for Public Good (PPG), supporting the organization’s skills-building portfolio, where he identifies new ways to define procurement excellence, in addition to overseeing PPG’s coaching and interactive workshops on government operations. Prior to joining PPG, Charley was a Project Leader at the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, where he led procurement transformation projects to help cities and state agencies fully realize outcomes from social service programs through more data-driven contract management. Prior to the GPL, he worked at American Jewish World Service, a human rights nonprofit, where he supported their grassroots grantmaking and international education portfolios. Based out of Queens, NY, he holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy (MPP) from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. 

Favorite projects have included overseeing a 2-year revamp of the City of Tulsa’s procurement process and vendor engagement practices; coaching program managers in Pennsylvania on designing goal-oriented, federally funded workforce development programs; and building new best practices for contract management for Connecticut’s Office of Early Childhood.