URBAN INSTITUTE
ARE THERE TOO MANY NONPROFITS?
April 3, 2012
Elizabeth Boris (moderator) became the founding director of the Urban Institute’s Center on
Nonprofits and Philanthropy in September 1996. Boris was the founding director of the Aspen
Institute’s Nonprofit Sector Research Fund and vice president for research at the Council on
Foundations. She coedited Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict and cowrote
Working in Foundations: Career Patterns of Women and Men. She was honored by The NonProfit
Times as a Class of 2011 member of The NPT Power & Influence Top 50—the ninth such award.
David La Piana is the managing partner of La Piana Consulting and the author of The Nonprofit
Strategy Revolution and The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook. He works closely with major
foundations and national nonprofits to promote new ideas and tools that can enhance nonprofits’
effectiveness. La Piana has taught at the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit
Organization Management and at the Haas School of Business at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Glen O’Gilvie was named chief executive officer of the Center for Nonprofit Advancement, an
association of nearly 1,000 nonprofits, in 2008. As president and CEO of the Earth Conservation
Corps in Washington, D.C., for over four years, he forged partnerships with nonprofits, public
officials, foundations, and corporations to engage disconnected youth in environmental service
and workforce development. O’Gilvie was a program officer at the Community Foundation for
the National Capital Region and national coordinator for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.
Mark Pacella, a member of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General since 1987, is the chief
deputy attorney general in charge of its Charitable Trusts and Organizations Section. He is a past
president of the National Association of State Charity Officials (an affiliate of the National
Association of Attorneys General) and is on the advisory board of the Charities Regulation and
Oversight Project of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School.
Pacella is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Charitable Organizations Committee.
Pat Read, a former senior vice president for public policy at Independent Sector, heads Pat Read
Consulting. She was the project director for Independent Sector’s Panel on the Nonprofit Sector,
which provided recommendations for improving federal laws governing nonprofits and
foundations. Read was executive director of the Colorado Nonprofit Association and vice
president for program services at The Foundation Center. She is a fellow with the Center for
Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, and Policy at George Mason University.