Peter Teague is currently Director of the Ecological Innovation and Contemplative Practice Programs at the Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) in New York City. He is a former business litigator and Peace Corps Volunteer, he has also served as senior environmental policy advisor to Congressman Leon Panetta, Senate candidate Diane Feinstein and Senator Barbara Boxer.
Peter also worked as Senior Program Officer at the Tides Foundation where his diverse portfolio included the environment, economic, social and environmental justice, community organizing, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, needle exchange, AIDS and democratic renewal.
Before joining the NCF staff, Peter led the Horizons Foundation, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT community foundation. Peter was also instrumental in developing the vision, mission and grantmaking strategies of Seattle’s $600 million Marguerite Casey Foundation, established in 2002.
At NCF, Peter has designed and led a program that is responsible for introducing a set of innovative concepts, leaders and initiatives to the national stage. These include:
• The groundbreaking work of cognitive linguist and strategic framing expert George Lakoff, author of “Moral Politics” and the national best seller, “Don’t Think of an Elephant;”
• Green for All, a national program to build ecologically sustainable pathways out of poverty and that helped enact significant federal legislation in its first year;
• The Apollo Alliance, which has helped to break the 25-year deadlock between national labor and environmental organizations by bringing them together around a common vision of energy independence and good jobs;
• The Global Warming Litigation Project, which has facilitated eight state attorneys general to file suit against the nation’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases;
• The Carbon Disclosure Project, which now represents institutional investors holding over $57 trillion in assets to survey the world’s largest corporations on their contributions to, and plans for reducing, the global warming threat;
• “The Death of Environmentalism,” a report which has stirred a national and international debate about the efficacy of environmentalism as it is currently understood and practiced; and
• The Strategic Values Project, which is using the most sophisticated social values research and analysis available to corporations to develop new and more effective approaches to the work of social change.
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