Carol Lukas is president of Fieldstone Alliance and former director of National Services for Amherst H. Wilder Foundation. She has been executive director of nonprofit organizations, a trustee of a community foundation, a consultant in a Fortune 500 company, and a small business owner. She has more than twenty-five years of consulting and training experience with nonprofits, government, foundations, businesses, and collaboratives. Carol focuses on building the capacity of national networks and organizations and on strengthening connections between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors as they address urban issues. She specializes in helping organizations and collaboratives plan and manage change in strategic direction and organization structure and capacity. She is author and coauthor of Consulting with Nonprofits: A Practitioner's Guide, Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: A Funder's Guide to Capacity Building, and Conducting Community Forums.
