Ben Cameron is executive director of the Theatre Communications Group in New York City, the national service organization for the American nonprofit professional theater. TCG seeks to strengthen, nurture and promote the not-for-profit professional American theatre.

Cameron joined TCG in 1998. Prior to this appointment, he had been senior program officer at the Dayton Hudson Foundation and manager of community relations at Target Stores. In this position, he supervised a $51 million national giving program that focused on grant giving, cause marketing and volunteerism at the community level. From 1988 through 1992, Cameron worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, serving as director of the NEA's theatre program from 1990.

Cameron has published many articles on theatre, including a monthly editorial column in American Theatre, and authored a chapter on The Philanthropist for "Christopher Hampton: A Casebook," edited by Robert Gross. He received an M.F.A. in dramaturgy from the Yale School of Drama in 1981, where he was the first recipient of the Kenneth Tynan Prize, and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a John Motley Morehead scholar. In 1998, Cameron was named a Salzburg Fellow by the Humphrey Institute of Public Policy, and as such participated in an international seminar on changing relations between government, foundation and corporate sectors.

Dr. Emmett D. Carson is internationally recognized as a catalyst for progressive social change. A renowned speaker, he has published over 75 works on philanthropy and social justice. Currently, Dr. Carson is president and CEO of The Minneapolis Foundation. Since his arrival in 1994, the foundation has received national recognition for its grantmaking and communication efforts as it increased its assets from $186 million to well over a half billion dollars. Previously, Dr. Carson was the first manager of the Ford Foundation's worldwide grantmaking program on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. He also has worked for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Congressional Research Service.

Dr. Carson serves on several nonprofit boards including the Council on Foundations (board chair), Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Southern Education Foundation, and the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Policy, among others. He is a former board member of the Minnesota Council on Foundations. Dr. Carson is the recipient of several nonprofit leadership awards and has been recognized several times by "The Nonprofit Times" as one of the 50 most influential nonprofit leaders in the United States.

Dr. Carson received his Ph.D. and M.P.A. degrees in public and international affairs from Princeton University and his Bachelor's degree in economics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Morehouse College. Married to Jacqueline Copeland-Carson, Ph.D., together they have the privilege, pleasure and occasional challenge of raising a teenage daughter.

Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch is well-known as an outspoken advocate for consumers, senior citizens and victims of crime. He has proposed aggressive legislative initiatives to level the playing field between patients and HMOs; limit ATM and other bank fees; provide homeowners a bill of rights to clean up questionable market practices and ensure fair treatment; and eliminate unfair automatic renewal provisions in contracts. His criminal justice initiatives include enhanced law enforcement efforts to fight gangs, keep sex offenders off the street, protect victims of domestic abuse, and integrate statewide criminal justice computer systems to allow law enforcement to share vital information.

Prior to being elected Attorney General, Hatch was an attorney in private legal practice. He developed a national reputation for representing dozens of breast cancer and other patients who were denied access to bone marrow transplants and other lifesaving medical treatment by their HMOs and health plans. In 1995, Hatch successfully led an effort to require health plans to provide bone marrow transplant coverage for women with breast cancer.

As Minnesota's Commissioner of Commerce from 1983 to 1989, Hatch was the primary regulator of banks, insurance companies, securities and real estate firms doing business in Minnesota. Hatch streamlined the Commerce Department, resulting in a savings to taxpayers of nearly a half million dollars per year. Hatch received national attention for his work in the areas of medical malpractice coverage, corporate takeovers and insurance coverage issues.

Martin Schneiderman is founder and president of Information Age Associates, Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey. He has done extensive strategic planning, large-scale project management and professional development for a wide range of organizations. His experience includes the design, integration and management of a wide range of information systems including for art collections, corporate communications, estate planning, financial planning, fundraising, grants management, human resources, insurance, investment management, legal services, performance measurement, philanthropy, program evaluation and trust accounting.

Prior to establishing Information Age Associates, Schneiderman gained extensive experience as the chief information officer for Rockefeller Family and Associates, and as director of the technology laboratory and computer education programs at Educational Testing Service.

Schneiderman has served as a senior consultant to many industry associations, hardware and software companies and nonprofit and philanthropic organizations including the Conference Board, Council on Foundations, Independent Sector, The Communications Network, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers and the Foundation Center. He serves as technology editor and contributing writer for the the Council on Foundations' "Foundation News & Commentary" magazine.