Consultant
Tony Proscio is a consultant to foundations and major nonprofit organizations on strategic planning, evaluation, and communication. His clients have included the Ford, Robert Wood Johnson, Hewlett, Rockefeller, and F.B. Heron Foundations, the California Endowment, and the United Nations Secretariat. From 2013 to 2019 he was associate director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he remains a senior fellow. At Duke, he specialized in research on limited-life philanthropy, closely observing the work of several foundations that recently closed or were drawing near the end of their intended lifespan. This included producing detailed chronicles of the final years of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Avi Chai Foundation, both of which cease grantmaking in 2020. In the 1990s, he was associate editor of The Miami Herald, where he was lead editorial writer on economic issues and wrote a weekly opinion column.
