In addition to specific consulting projects, we commissioned a study on foundation perceptions of leadership change, developed strategy curriculum for emerging leaders, presented workshops on succession planning, participated in national conferences, and provided ongoing leadership coaching support for a number of our clients.  This year we will continue to be thought leaders in the field through new research, increased publishing, a new blog, and interviews with the most dynamic leaders in the sector.

DHR International is pleased to announce that Peter Hero joins as consultant and Executive Vice President in the firm's Silicon Valley office and is a consulting member of DHR's Nonprofit Practice. 

For 18 years Mr. Hero was the President of Community Foundation Silicon Valley (CFSV). In early 2007, he helped lead the merger of CFSV with a nearby community foundation, creating a new $1.7 billion entity, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, to which he is now Senior Advisor to the CEO until the end of 2008. At the merger CFSV had $1.1 billion in assets (compared to assets of just $7M when he began) and annual grants exceeding $100 million. Prior to this position, Mr. Hero was President of the Maine College of Art, a 4-year college of art and design.

Currently Mr. Hero is the founding Chairman of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the Skoll Foundation, eBay Foundation, PBS, Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service, the American India Foundation, and in 2004 he was appointed a Synergos Foundation Global Fellow.  Mr. Hero was a founding Director of The Entrepreneur's Foundation and is a past Board member of the Council on Foundations where he chaired the National Committee on Community Foundations.  He currently chairs the World Bank Advisory Committee on global community foundation development.

For more than a decade Mr. Hero has been working internationally, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, where he is helping to create a regional network of community foundations.  Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel appointed him to the 2002 NATO Summit Council of Advisors in Prague. 

Mr. Hero holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University School of Business, an M.A. (With Distinction) in Art History from Williams College, and (Honorary) Doctor of Laws from the Maine College of Art.  He is a lecturer at Stanford Graduate Business School (which has written a case study on CFSV) and his writing has been published in the United States and Europe.

We have recruited exceptional new leaders to take these organizations to even greater levels of mission impact:

-         President/Head of School, Oak Hill School

-         CEO, American India Foundation

-         Executive Director, East Bay Community Law Center

-         Executive Director, San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center

-         Executive Director, Legal Community Against Violence

-         Executive Director, The Whistlestop (in partnership with CVNL)

-         Executive Director, The Cedars of Marin (in partnership with CVNL)

-         Controller, Davis Street Family Resource Center (in partnership with JobPlex)

We have worked with these organizations to support their missions through exceptional strategy, governance, and leadership:

-         Oakland Museum of California

-         Performing Arts Workshop

-         Terra Foundation for American Art

-         Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership of Marin

-         Transfiguration Episcopal Church

-         Peninsula Clergy Network

-         Momentum for Mental Health

-        Opportunity Health Partners