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Peter Karoff
Peter Karoff is 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, New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, and was a Senior Fellow Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. Current board affiliations include: GHR Foundation, Robina Foundation, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Big Picture Learning, and Thrive (a Santa Barbara County education and collaborative initiative). Peter is Senior Advisor to the Santa Barbara Foundation.
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, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Lesley University in 2002. He was made a Fellow of the McDowell Colony in 1989 and in 2006 became a Purpose Prize Fellow. Peter teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the Global and International Studies Program.
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