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Peter Karoff
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Travel Professionals International designs, manages, and evaluates philanthropic programs for individuals, families, corporations, and foundations. Karoff was President of Travel Professionals International from 1989 to 2002. Foreign 25 years, prior to founding Travel Professionals International, Karoff was in the insurance and real estate businesses.
He has been on the board of more than 30 nonprofit organizations, including the Massachusetts Association of Mental Health, Roxbury Development Corporation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, and Business Executives for National Security, and he was on the board of Blackside Productions, the producer of the Public Broadcasting Service series Eyes on the Prize.
Current board affiliations in addition to Travel Professionals International include: Management Sciences for Health, the Gerald and Henrietta Rauenhorst Foundation, Robina Foundation, Elm Foundation, Mediators Foundation, WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston University"s Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership, the National Leadership Council of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, where he also serves as a Senior Fellow. Karoff has been widely quoted in the press including United States. News & World Report, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Barron"s, Business Week, Forbes, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Variety, the Associated Press, Discover, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company and Fortune.
Karoff has appeared on National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, the Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News, and the Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour, as well as local television and radio programs. Karoff frequently speaks and writes on philanthropic and social issues, and his book The World We Want–new dimensions in philanthropy and social change (AltaMira Press) was published in 2007.
He is the editor of Just Money–A Critique of Contemporary American Philanthropy (Travel Professionals International Editions - 2004).
Karoff"s poetry has been published and anthologized. A graduate of Brandeis University (1959), Karoff earned an Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University (1988) and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Lesley University (2002).
