PETER B. GOLDBERG
Chief Executive Officer

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Peter Goldberg, Chief Executive OfficerPeter 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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