Speaker Biographies

Arthur C. Brooks is the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a visiting scholar at AEI, where he researches culture, philanthropy, and social entrepreneurship. He is the author of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism (Basic Books, 2006), which examines American charitable giving, and he has just finished Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America—and How We Can Get More of It, which will be released in May.

Howard Husock is vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute and director of the institute’s social entrepreneurship initiative. His writing on nonprofit organizations and social entrepreneurship has appeared in The Public Interest, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Wall Street Journal, Society, and Philanthropy. From 1987 to 2006, he served as director of case studies in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Richard Brewster is executive director of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise. For eight years, until February 2003, he was CEO of Scope, a UK disability charity with revenues of $160 million and four thousand employees. As CEO, Mr. Brewster oversaw major changes in governance and in the strategy of the organization. He is a senior visiting research fellow at the Open University Business School and has been a senior visiting practitioner at the Center of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at Georgetown University. Mr. Brewster worked for ten years in commercial management at ICI, a multinational chemical company. He joined the nonprofit sector in 1986 when he became the national appeals director of Oxfam.
 
Dennis R. Young holds the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is also president and founding CEO of the National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise. A former president of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Mr. Young recently received this organization’s Award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research. Mr. Young has written and edited many books, including Financing Nonprofits: Putting Theory into Practice (AltaMira Press, 2006) and Wise Decision-Making in Uncertain Times: Using Nonprofit Resources Effectively (Foundation Center, 2006). He has been named to the NonProfit Times’s “Power and Influence Top 50” list.

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