The University of Texas at Austin

Peter Frumkin is Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the LBJ School. Frumkin is the author of On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer and Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy, and co-editor of In Search of the Nonprofit Sector. He has written articles on topics related to nonprofit management, philanthropy, cross-sector partnerships, and service contracting.

Prior to coming to the LBJ School in 2005, he was an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was affiliated with the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Frumkin has been a Senior Fellow of the New America Foundation, and has worked as a foundation program officer, a nonprofit manager, and program evaluator for both nonprofit and public agencies. He has lectured on philanthropy at universities throughout the country and served as a consultant to foundations and individual donors on strategy and evaluation.

Frumkin received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1997.

Education

Ph.D. in sociology, University of Chicago, 1997; M.P.P., Georgetown University, 1989; B.A., Oberlin College, 1984

Current Positions

Member, Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action; member, American Society for Public Administration; member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management; Member, editorial board of the Journal Society.

Previous Positions

Associate professor of public policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2002-2005; assistant professor: 1997-2002); senior fellow, New America Foundation; consultant, Lance Armstrong Foundation, consultant, George Foundation; consultant, The One Star Foundation

Author, Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy (University of Chicago, 2006); author, On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer (Harvard University Press, 2002); co-editor, In Search of the Nonprofit Sector (Transaction Publishers, 2004); author, articles on topics related to nonprofit management, philanthropy, cross-sector partnerships, and service contracting

Budgeting and Public Financial Management
Nonprofit Management
Partnerships (Public-Private)