Jon Pratt
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Position: Executive Director
Organization: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Location: St. Paul, MN
Jon Pratt is a Panel member.
Jon Pratt is director of the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, an association of 1,500 organizations that sponsors research, training, lobbying and negotiated discounts to strengthen the state's nonprofit sector. Before coming to the council in 1987, he worked as attorney/lobbyist for an environmental organization (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group), as regional director for an alternative foundation (the Youth Project), and as director for a coalition formed by nonprofits to reform corporate and foundation philanthropy (the Philanthropy Project). Mr. Pratt currently co-chairs the Public Policy Committee of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, which is made up of 39 statewide nonprofit associations with a combined membership of 22,000 organizations. He is also contributing editor of the Nonprofit Quarterly, a national journal based in Boston, and has been recognized several times by The NonProfit Times as one of the 50 most influential nonprofit leaders in the United States. Mr. Pratt has a law degree from Antioch School of Law and a M.P.A. from Harvard University. He lives in Minneapolis.