About this speaker

Donald Summers
Founder and Executive Director, Altruist AcceleratorDonald Summers is the Founder & CEO of Altruist Partners, a global advisory firm for nonprofits and social enterprises. He and his firm have led over one hundred successful nonprofit and social enterprise accelerations from the local to the global level in the fields of education, human services, health, environmental reform, and public media. In 2020, Summers founded the firm's nonprofit arm, the Altruist Accelerator, to deliver the firm's methodology at low cost to the entire social sector. He is the author of "Scaling Altruism: A Proven Pathway for Accelerating Nonprofit Growth and Impact" (Wiley, 2024). He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Harvard University.