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Peter Karoff
H. Peter Karoff is chairman and founder of The Philanthropic Initiative (TPI), and was President of TPI from 1989 to 2002. For 25 years, prior to founding TPI, Peter was in the insurance and real estate businesses. He has been on the board of more than 30 nonprofit organizations, including Blackside Productions, producer of the PBS series, The Eyes on the Prize. Current board affiliations include: The Synergos Institute, Management Sciences for Health, Gerald and Henrietta Rauenhorst Foundation, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, and the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University where he has served as a Senior Fellow. Peter is the author of The World We Want – new dimensions in philanthropy and social change, (AltaMira Press - 2007) and editor of Just Money – A Critique of Contemporary American Philanthropy, (TPI Editions - 2004.) Peter’s poetry has been published and anthologized. A graduate of Brandeis University and Columbia University, he received an Honorary Degree from Lesley University in 2002. He was made a Fellow of the McDowell Colony in 1989 and in 2006 became a Purpose Prize Fellow.
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