Peter York is Senior Vice president and Director of Research for TCC Group, a consulting firm that provides strategic planning, program development, evaluation and management consulting services to foundations, nonprofit organizations, corporate community involvement programs. He is also is a board member of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the Alliance for Effective Social Investing. He currently serves as an evaluator for a variety of grant-funded initiatives and nonprofit programs, including: The California Endowment, Atlantic Philanthropies, Gap, Inc., Wachovia, and Girl Scouts USA. An authority in the field of capacity building, York studies, designs, implements and evaluates the impact of investments made in nonprofit organizational capacity building, community building, and policy/advocacy. York is the author of "Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: A Funder's Guide to Capacity Building" (Fieldstone, 2005) as well as multiple studies, papers, chapters and reports on the topics of evaluation, capacity building and organizational effectiveness. He is a frequent speaker at such conferences as the Council on Foundations, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and the Council of Southwest Foundations. He is currently acting as an evaluator on New York City's Civic Corp volunteer program and assisting in the development of strategies for addressing volunteer service for the President Obama's National Reimagining Service Task Force.