Peter Goldberg is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for Children and Families and its parent holding company, Families International, Inc.

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.

As president and CEO of Families International, Inc., Goldberg oversees a unique corporate structure that allows four organizations to operate under one parent company. This allows for the financial independence of each of the organizations while creating an environment that encourages collaboration.

Goldberg also serves as chief executive officer of Ways to Work, Inc. and United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA).

Ways to Work is a proven innovative program that provides modest loans to low-income families. The loan programs, which are run by Alliance members, also provide financial literacy and counseling to thousands of families each year.

UNCA is a voluntary, nonprofit, national organization with neighborhood-based member agencies throughout the United States. It was founded by Jane Addams and other pioneers of the settlement movement. UNCA’s original and continuing purpose is to improve the quality of life at the neighborhood level.

Prior to joining the Families International group of companies in 1994, 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).

Goldberg is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of The Children’s Institute (Oregon), and a Board Trustee of The Bridgespan Group. 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 Convening Chair of Leadership 18, a group that consists of the major national nonprofit human service organizations in the United States.

He has served on numerous other nonprofit boards in the past, including the National Human Services Assembly, 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.

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), Goldberg has authored numerous articles on nonprofit and corporate social responsibility issues.

He and his wife, Betsy, a speech therapist in the Wauwatosa (Wis.) public schools, live in Mequon, Wis. 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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