Peter Golio
I am the ‘PG’ in PG Consulting. My experience in management and development in the Los Angeles nonprofit sector began in 1991. I spent a decade in development at UCLA and shorter stretches at Whittier College, Good Samaritan Hospital, and John Tracy Clinic; I served a number of nonprofit clients at Phillips & Associates, a management consulting firm, principally on issues related to major gifts and campaign readiness.
I have worked extensively with volunteers at all levels – from savvy board and committee chairs to reluctant, first-time annual fund solicitors. My collaborative approach, teaming up with an institution’s administrative and volunteer leadership, has been both a great pleasure and, I believe, a key to successful development initiatives.
I have been a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) since 1991; I have served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of AFP, on the membership and mentoring committees, and most recently, on the planning committee for the 2011 Regional Philanthropy Conference.
Before moving to Los Angeles, I worked in the Dean’s Office of the College of Letters & Science at the University of California at Berkeley, where I advised undergraduates, directed orientation programs for new transfer students, and wrote an analytical report on Berkeley’s (outmoded and despised) Advance Enrollment System (ACE), which paved the way for the campus’s first interactive enrollment system. (One faculty correspondent wrote me, “Bravo! Your report on ACE is wonderfully, precisely on target.”)
In Berkeley I worked in various roles – both on staff and as a volunteer – on many political campaigns. I reprised that experience in 2008, when I worked full-time from the end of summer through Election Day for the Obama campaign in California.
I have a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley.
