Less boring, more authentic: On the future of nonprofit boards

John Brothers is the president of the T. Rowe Price Foundation and president of T. Rowe Price Charitable. After growing up in deep poverty and homelessness, Dr. Brothers began his work serving in the local community as a community organizer and family case manager in urban neighborhoods in the Midwest before taking leadership positions with local and national organizations on the East Coast. He served as a management and social policy professor for over a decade at NYU and Rutgers University and served as a visiting scholar at the Hauser Center at Harvard. He currently alternates teaching engagements between the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup with the Goucher Prison Education Project and the College of Business at Coppin State University, a historically black college located in Baltimore.

Sam Caplan is the Vice President of Social Impact at Submittable, a platform that foundations, governments, nonprofits, and other changemakers use to launch, manage, and measure impactful granting and CSR programs. Inspired by the amazing work performed by practitioners of all stripes, Sam strives to help them achieve their missions through better, more effective software.

Sam formerly served as founder of New Spark Strategy, Chief Information Officer at the Walton Family Foundation, and head of technology at the Walmart Foundation. He consults, advises, and writes on social impact technology, strategy, and innovation.

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