Peter Goldberg is
President and Chief Executive Officer of Alliance for Children and
Families and its parent holding company, Families International, Inc. The
Alliance for Children and Families formed October 1, 1998 when Family
Service America (established 1911) and the National Association of Homes
and Services for Children (established 1975) merged. The Alliance for Children and Families represents more than
360 nonprofit child- and family-serving organizations.
Alliance members serve
millions of individuals annually in thousands of communities, providing a vast
array of services ranging from residential care for children to community
centered prevention and intervention programs to economic self-sufficiency
initiatives.
Mr. Goldberg also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Ways to Work, another
subsidiary of Families International. Ways to Work is a proven innovative
program that provides modest loans to low income parents who cannot get them
elsewhere. Loans are made to help family members pay for unexpected expenses
that could interfere with their ability to keep a job or stay in school.
Prior to joining the Families International group of companies in 1994, Mr.
Goldberg held a variety of positions in the corporate and philanthropic field
and in the public sector. He was President of the Prudential Foundation
(1990-94) and head of Primerica's social responsibility programs (1982-88). He
was Project Director of the New York State Heroin and Alcohol Abuse Study
(1981-82) and Special Assistant to the Director of the U.S. government's
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1979-81).
Mr. Goldberg is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Chair
of the Board of The Children’s Institute (Oregon), a Board Trustee of The
Bridgespan Group, a member of the Board of the National Human Services Assembly,
and a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. He is also Chair of the
Advisory Committee of the Listening Post Project at the Center for Civil Society
Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Advisory Board of the
Harvard Center for Society and Health. He has served on numerous other nonprofit
boards in the past, including Independent Sector (which he chaired from
1999-2001), Jobs for the Future, Children of Alcoholics Foundation, the
Advertising Council, the Community Service Society of New York, Long Wharf
Theatre, and George Street Playhouse.
Mr. Goldberg has been selected by The NonProfit Times as one of the 50 most
influential people in the nonprofit sector six times since 1998.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Albany (B.A. Political
Science, 1970), Mr. Goldberg has authored numerous articles on nonprofit and
corporate social responsibility issues.
He and his wife, Betsy, a speech therapist in the Wauwatosa public schools, live
in Mequon, Wisconsin. They have two daughters, Jessica, who is pursuing her
doctorate in economics at the University of Michigan; and Michelle, a product
design engineer at Apple Computer.
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