Carol A. Lukas

Carol is President of Fieldstone Alliance, a national nonprofit intermediary in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fieldstone Alliance works to strengthen the nonprofit sector across the country through its consulting, training, research, and publishing.

Carol has been executive director of nonprofit organizations, a trustee of a community foundation, a consultant within a fortune 500 company, and a small business owner. She has over 30 years of consulting and training experience with nonprofits, government, foundations, businesses, and collaboratives. Carol focuses on building the capacity of national networks and organizations; strengthening connections between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors as they address urban issues; and helping organizations and collaboratives plan and manage change in strategic direction and organization structure and capacity.

Carol is author of Consulting with Nonprofits - A Practitioner's Guide, and co-author of Strengthening Nonprofit Performance - A Funder's Guide to Capacity Building, Conducting Community Forums - Engaging Citizens, Mobilizing Communities, and a contributing author to A Funder's Guide to Organizational Assessment.