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2008 Nonprofit Strategies Forum:  Meet our Speaker
Peter Brinckerhoff 

       
Keynote Presentation Made Possible by Support from The Philadelphia Foundation

Peter Brinckerhoff has spent his entire adult life working in, around, and for nonprofits organizations, promoting the concept that a nonprofit organization is a mission-based business, in the business of doing its mission. 

When Peter formed his firm, Corporate Alternatives, Inc. in 1982, it was the first consulting and training company in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to the management concerns of 501(c) (3) organizations.  

A former VISTA Volunteer, Peter knows how not-for-profits work from his experience as a volunteer, his work as a staff member and later as executive director of two regional nonprofits, and from his service on numerous state, local, and national nonprofit boards. 

Peter is an award-winning author, with eight books and two workbooks in print, and over 60 published articles.  The first two books in his acclaimed Mission-Based Management Series won the prestigious Terry McAdam Award from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. The award is given for "The Best New Nonprofit Book" each year. He is the only author to win the award twice. Peter's books are used as texts in courses at the undergraduate and graduate nonprofit management programs in over 60 colleges and universities worldwide. His newest book, Generations, The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit, was released by Fieldstone in March, 2007. 

From 2003-2007, Peter was an Adjunct Professor of Nonprofit Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University . He taught the core graduate course in the Nonprofit Management program at Kellogg. In addition, Peter has guest lectured at the graduate level at Boston University ,  University of Colorado , University of Illinois , and Vanderbilt University. 

When Peter’s first book, Mission-Based Management was first published in the early ‘90s, the idea that nonprofits could and should use standard business techniques to effectively manage their organizations was a radical new concept. 

On June 3, Peter will show you how your organization will benefit form these time-tested techniques, learning how to get more out of existing resources with standard business practices.  Using good cash management procedures, effective marketing approaches, and sound human resource practices all add significantly to an organization’s ability to “manage for mission.”   This internationally acclaimed nonprofit consultant, writer and presented will show you how, in an environment of increasing competition and eroding trust, the stewardship mindset can be put into action to benefit your organization and the people it serves, resulting in more mission for your money.  

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