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Michael brings to his work 40 years of broad business experience, including strategy development, financial management, and program planning and implementation. He has extensive experience in cross-functional project teams working with program, IT, marketing and finance professionals. He also has a solid grounding in accounting and financial issues, working closely with CEOs and Boards of Directors on business planning and strategy to drive overall performance. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Virginia.

Michael has over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, serving as a board member, CFO, CEO, and consultant. He specializes in providing training and guidance to boards on financial and risk management, wh Michael brings to his work 40 years of broad business experience, including strategy development, financial management, and program planning and implementation. He has extensive experience in cross-functional project teams working with program, IT, marketing and finance professionals. He also has a solid grounding in accounting and financial issues, working closely with CEOs and Boards of Directors on business planning and strategy to drive overall performance. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Virginia.

Michael has over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, serving as a board member, CFO, CEO, and consultant. He specializes in providing training and guidance to boards on financial and risk management, while also assisting CEOs in managing board relationships. Michael has served on seven nonprofit boards, including multiple terms as chair on two of them. Notably, he chaired a nonprofit during its merger and integration into a larger system, remaining on the board throughout the five-year integration period.

While Michael was involved in nonprofit accounting as early as the mid-1980s, his substantive nonprofit experience began when served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute from 1998 to 2001 and then as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 2001 to 2004. From that point forward, he has provided professional services to nonprofit organizations and small to medium sized businesses through his work with three accounting firms, culminating in over eight years as a Partner/Principal with BDO USA.

Prior to his work with Kennedy Institute, he worked in the audit practices of two Big-8 accounting firms in the 1980s and early 1990s, served as a Controller for two privately owned companies. and spent over five years in strategic finance roles in the Consumer Markets division of MCI Telecommunications, working on airline partnerships, an internal loyalty program, 1-800 MUSIC NOW, 1-800-COLLECT, and 10-10-321. ...more

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Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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Michael Ward said: " In performing research for my book on the dynamics of American poverty and wealth, Caste was an essential perspective. While I understood the history of castes in Indian society, I hadn't previously seen the parallels with the experience of Black Ame ...more "

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Michael Ward rated a book it was amazing Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In performing research for my book on the dynamics of American poverty and wealth, Caste was an essential perspective. While I understood the history of castes in Indian society, I hadn't previously seen the parallels with the experience of Black Ame ...more
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Michael Ward rated a book it was amazing The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was a well-researched and thoughtfully articulated book on the far-reaching impacts of discriminatory housing practices. The author provides the reader with concrete examples of how redlining limited not just housing choices, but employment oppo ...more
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Michael Ward rated a book it was amazing The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In my research about the history of the U.S. tax code, this book was an invaluable resource. The author brought great insight to aspects of that history that reflected real bias that many people simply don't recognize. It is important that her observ ...more
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I had a sense about the impact of Reagan-era policies on poverty and the extreme accumulation of wealth. This was an exceptionally detailed and insightful account of so much that happened, written in the very early 1990s. We haven't really learned th ...more
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I had a sense about the impact of Reagan-era policies on poverty and the extreme accumulation of wealth. This was an exceptionally detailed and insightful account of so much that happened, written in the very early 1990s. We haven't really learned th ...more
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