Dan Cardinali is president and CEO of Independent Sector (IS), a national membership organization that brings together a diverse group of nonprofits, foundations, and corporations to advance the common good. Before joining IS in 2016, Cardinali served on the IS board and on several IS member committees. He also led an IS member, Communities in Schools—the nation’s largest and most effective dropout-prevention organization—for 12 years after working in other positions at the organization. Earlier in his career, Cardinali was a community organizer in Guadalajara, Mexico, and then returned to Washington, DC, for a research fellowship at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. Cardinali is an Annie E. Casey Children and Families Fellow (2007). He serves on the board of Child Trends and on the advisory boards of HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, the Conference Board’s Center on Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy, the Fetzer Institute, and Project Evident.